Posts Tagged ‘Ving Rhames’
Film Review – Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
***Warning: This Review Contains Minor Spoilers*** It’s hard to fathom that when Tom Cruise first adapted the Mission: Impossible television series for the big screen, it was considered a risk. It was the first film made under his own production company. If it were to flop, he would have…
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Film Review – The Garfield Movie
The joy of the Garfield comic strip was in its simplicity. In just a few bite-sized portions, readers could ascertain the entire dynamic of the characters. Garfield was the wisecracking orange cat who loved lasagna. He treated the human Jon Arbuckle more as a roommate…
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Film Review – Mission: Impossible – Fallout
Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018) is the best entry into the Mission: Impossible series and is the best action film since Mad Max: Fury Road (2015). Throughout this latest adventure, we hear super agent Ethan Hunt utter the phrase, “I won’t let you down.” While…
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Film Review – Father Figures
In the 21st Century there is probably no more influential figure in mainstream Hollywood film comedy than Judd Apatow. While he didn’t invent character based comedy, he definitely proved that it could be popular and make money. For a long time big screen comedy was…
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Film Review – Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
In all of the advertisements for Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015), the key image features super agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) dangling off a cargo plane in mid-flight. Reports stated that Cruise performed the stunt for real, with the help of digitally removed wiring.…
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Simon Pegg – Video Podcast #255
In honor of the release of Star Trek Into Darkness, Spencer and Greg discuss Simon Pegg.
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Film Review – Won’t Back Down
Most of us can probably recall at least one teacher in our lives who made some sort of impact on us during our journey to adulthood. A good teacher can open a student’s eyes to the world around them and prepare them for what awaits…
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To watch Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction (1994) is to experience American filmmaking at its very best. Here is a film that broke through boundaries, that did not adhere to the rules of traditional storytelling, that decided to create something new and innovative. The early to…
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