Here’s my review of Orange County for Marcus and Stevi’s Ten Years Ago: Films in Retrospective blog. Aw, geez, is it almost time for my high school reunion already? Ten years ago was my senior year, so it coincided pretty nicely with the release of Orange County. In the film, Colin Hanks’s Shaun Brumder is [...]
Here’s my last 2011 contribution to Marcus and Stevi’s Ten Years Ago: Films in Retrospective blog: I consider Saving Private Ryan to be the definitive cinematic World War II experience. I hold Black Hawk Down in the same regard when it comes to contemporary 90s conflicts. I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one that [...]
We take for granted today’s oversaturation of comic book movies. After 1997′s Batman and Robin, film adaptations of comics had an uphill struggle to get greenlit. By 2001, the success of the grim and gritty approach taken by Blade and X-Men had once again made comic books attractive to Hollywood. And within comics, the ones [...]
Here’s my latest review for the 10 Years Ago blog: When I wrote about Invader Zim in a previous 10YA post, I briefly mentioned the state of the animation industry during that period. Anime in particular was becoming very prolific across the globe, with numerous licensing deals on television and theatrical releases outside of Japan. [...]
Here’s my latest review for the 10 Years Ago blog: There’s no better time than now to look back at Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. The newest Tomb Raider game set to be released next year is a planned reboot of the Lara Croft character. There are also talks of another Tomb Raider film aimed at [...]
In another cross-post with Marcus and Stevi’s 10 Years Ago: Films in Retrospective, I’ll be talking about Pokémon 3: The Movie. The third film of the series was released stateside back in April 6, 2001. Logline: When Molly’s father, Professor Hale, goes missing, the strange pokémon that he was studying come to the little girl [...]
My friends, Marcus Gorman and Stevi Costa, have a blog called “10 Years Ago: Films in Retrospective.” As you would expect, each post corresponds to a review of a film that was released a decade prior to the date of the published post. Every once in a while, they’ll also branch out to other media [...]
