While everyone remembers all of Disney’s classic animated movies, their live action films. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is an example of one of their best with its impressive special effects, and sense of journey and adventure based on the works of Jules Verne. The story follows a sailor, a professor and his assistant as …
Author Archives: Hayden Mckee
Last Night in Soho
Edgar Wright could be considered one of the best directors working in the industry today with unique editing and high attention to detail with comedy films like Shaun of the Dead, Scott Pilgrim vs the World, and Baby Driver. With this new movie, he is taking on a new genre with mystery and horror, which …
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
The original Ghostbusters is one of the best comedies to come from the 1980s. It was such a creative idea that is elevated with clever and dry humor with an amazing cast. When the sequel came along, it was criticized for being too similar to the first one, which kind of showed that the first …
The Devil’s Backbone
Guillermo Del Toro has been one of the most visionary directors for a long time and has since become more recognized with movies like Hellboy, Pacific Rim, and the Shape of Water, but his best works come from two movies that cover the Spanish civil war; Pan’s Labyrinth and the Devil’s Backbone. Pan’s Labyrinth is …
In the Mouth of Madness
John Carpenter has several great movies throughout the 80s, such as the Thing, They Live and Big Trouble in Little China, but once the 90s came along, his films’ quality started to die down. That is with the exception of In the Mouth of Madness starring Sam Niell. It’s a story about how an insurance …
Police Story
I had been somewhat familiar with martial arts films for the past couple of years, mostly from franchises like the Raid and Ip Man. But I had never fully watched a Jackie Chan movie until I recently watched Drunken Master, which was his first movie to star in and was also what kicked off the …
Dune
I had never read the book this movie is based on nor seen the adaptation from 80s, but I still really enjoyed this movie. It is made by the same director as Blade Runner 2049, which was already an amazing looking and well crafted science fiction movie, so he was already the perfect choice for …
The Blob
Two movies that I really like share the same story, but are still able to stand out from each other and represent the specific decade they came out in. The original Blob from 1958 was made during a time where science fiction movies were coming out non stop. Most of these movies were made very …
Halloween Kills
Halloween is one of the most confused franchises to me. The original film is a masterpiece of a slasher movie that works perfectly fine as a standalone movie, but after being such a profitable movie, of course it had to have sequels. The second movie was a decent follow up and conclusion to the Michael …
No Time to Die
The 007 James Bond franchise has been around for over 50 years with 25 movies. With the recent Daniel Craig movies, the series had been given new life. Casino Royale is what I think is the best of all the James Bond movies. It had the most well constructed story and action scenes, along with …