“Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” has one of the most unnecessarily convoluted plots of any tentpole action movie. So much so that this eighth
By 1994, I was losing interest in “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.” If memory serves, I recorded it via VCR timer and labeled the tapes with
As Quentin Tarantino gained buzz as the Gen-X auteur in the mid-’90s, “True Romance” (1993) was his secret film among my high school classmates. Everyone
“Sinners” builds up its portrayal of 1931 life for black folk in Mississippi so well that when a bigger cinematic threat comes along, it’s a
In what seems like a conscious effort after the “European Vacation” sideseason (a.k.a. Season 7, part one), story editor and lead writer David Wise brings
Raymond Chandler makes what seems like a conscious reaction to “The Little Sister” (1949) – where everyone is mean and/or manipulative – in “The Long
“The French Connection” (1971) made its thematic point: All that work by Popeye Doyle (Gene Hackman) and other cops, and — while some drugs are
“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ ” “Vacation in Europe” (1993) episodes have a mythic “lost episodes” quality in my mind. I was gradually losing interest in
“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures” Issues 23-31 (1991-92) include more fast-and-furious action-figure creation from writer Dean Clarrain, and his usual heavy dose of environmentalism, but
“Crimson Tide” (1995) is the apex of the Nineties action style of shaky handheld camerawork and men seeking the upper hand via authoritative voices and