Category: FILM REVIEW

Epic films on the American War of Secession were quite big in the 80s and 90s but rare in the early 2000s, even more so films that …

GOODFELLAS (1990). That’s the mafia film next to the GODFATHER-series everyone is always talking about. But despite its style and great camera work by Michael …

Comic books aren’t as strictly American as the dominance of DC and Marvel comics characters and related products may lead us to believe. Next to …

There was a time when the western was the most popular genre in American cinema, not only drawing the biggest crowds but also lifting film …

Childhood memories are in a league of their own and have a power over us much greater than some might think. To those of us …

War films have a long history in cinema. Even only a few years after WWII ended, big cinema productions showed battles in great detail to …

In 1985, Paul Verhoeven made his Hollywood debut, Flesh and Blood, a film set in Italy in the year of 1501 about a bunch of mercenaries …

Science fiction is one of the most reliable genres in publishing ever since the end of the 19th century. Writers such as W.G. Wells and …

Despite all the attention Paul Verhoeven’s STARSHIP TROOPERS received when it came out in 1997, it didn’t look like the kind of film that would start a …

What makes a classic? Clearly, this is a difficult question to answer. One that defies any unimpeachable explanation. But taste matters. Regardless of a film’s …