Creasy: “Do you think God’ll forgive us for what we’ve done?” Rayburn: “No.” This exchange happens near the beginning of director Tony Scott’s moving Man on Fire, a heavy but incredible film I had been putting…
“May he who illuminated this… illuminate me” – Henry Jones, Sr. Looking at the adventures of Indiana Jones chronologically, we’ve seen him find religion at the Temple of Doom as he gains a heart for helping…
In our first post looking at the Indiana Jones trilogy, we focused on the first film in chronological order (Temple of Doom) and how a shady, compromised, self-serving Indy got a little religion, a heart…
Some people think I’m biased toward blockbusters and certain genres, but I can honestly tell them: I love Indy films. With Raiders of the Lost Ark making an IMAX debut in a few weeks, it…
Spider-man 3 lacked a quality screenplay because they dropped some of the screenwriters and the director largely wrote the screenplay himself. While Sam Raimi is a tremendous director, he was found lacking when it came…
“A girl’s gotta eat.” – Selina Kyle. She’s good at what she does, one of the best, but her crimes are slowly and inevitably catching up with her. Insisting she’s only doing what she has…
John Blake: “Don’t you want to know who he is?” Jim Gordon: “I know exactly who he is; he’s The Batman.” He’s our point-of-view character for the film, not an “average Joe” but the most normal and…
“There was never just one…” (Apparently these guys are like Pringles.) This Friday we have a Bourne movie without Jason Bourne. This is CRAZY, right? We couldn’t possibly have a story where the central heroic…
“I knew Harvey Dent. I was his friend. And it will be a very long time before someone… Inspires us the way he did. I believed in Harvey Dent.” – Jim Gordon In Batman Begins,…