If it hadn't been for the surprising commercial success of?The Terminator, the world wouldn't have?Aliens,?Titanic, or?Avatar. (Okay, so two out of three isn't bad.) But in 1984, James Cameron wrote and directed the original Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle,?The...
On the surface, this is a strange Terry Gilliam movie. Now, many Gilliam movies (The Brothers Grimm,?12 Monkeys) are strange, but this one appears to be shockingly normal... at first. A shock jock, Jack Lucas (Jeff Bridges), sports the Howard Stern lifestyle, shouting...
Recently released on Blu-ray by Twilight Time,?Mississippi Burning?has always been one of my favorite films. Where?Selma?took the inside track with Martin Luther King Jr.'s inner circle and avoided the violence of the era (mostly),?Mississippi Burning?shows us the...
Liam Neeson has basically reinvented himself as an action superstar. Sure, there's the in-your-face bombastic?Taken?and its well-intended (but majorly flawed) sequels, and a few others that have shown he can throw a good, on-screen punch. The truth is though, that...
What if we had never met Dory? Or if Buzz and Woody had never become friends? Would our world be different? Most of us think that Pixar burst onto the scene with the release of its first feature film in 1995, Toy Story, noting its fifteen Academy Awards coinciding...
After the explosively entertaining?Jurassic Park, audiences everywhere were salivating at the prospect of more velociraptors, more comedy, and more (dare I say it?) Jeff Goldblum. But whatever the entertainment and theological value that the first film based on...
What happens when creativity gets replaced by redundancy and reiterations? With the impending arrival of?Jurassic World, following years of exec producing the terrible Michael Bay?Transformers?films, has Steven Spielberg finally given up on telling original stories...
Based on Elmore Leonard's short story, "Fire in the Hole," FX's?Justified?ran for six seasons full of scene-chewing dialogue, adventure, humor, and trouble for one U.S. Marshal Rayland Givens (Timothy Olyphant). When the credits finally wrapped on the sixth season,...
Last week, I tuned in to CBS?s The Briefcase, figuring that the premise might serve up a sermon illustration or two. In the premiere episode, a family is surprised with the delivery of a briefcase holding $101,000. They are told that the money is theirs, and they can...