Week two of the Summer of Steven Seagal, and we're looking at the second movie he was the leading man in, Hard to Kill. Being Seagal, we already knew he was difficult to be made to (blog post) die, but moviegoers in 1990 still had to learn that about him. They also learned he didn't do so well when it came (blog post) to expressing emotion. Howev

During the height of the Japanese giant monster movie mania, several studios tried their hand at their own monster, occasionally making several movies and having some success with the genre. Gappa: The Triphibian Monsters, is not one of those examples. After it's release, the studio that made it (blog post) nearly went under, and it faded into ob

The king-daddy of science fiction media today.. sort of like Fallout 4 is the lord of post-apocalyptic RPGs, Star Wars needs no introduction. Thus, I'll just use this blurb to point out that until the early 80s, the film was just called "Star Wars" as "Episode IV: A New Hope" wasn't tacked onto it just yet. That was but the first of the mountai

A few weeks back, behind-the-scenes footage from the production of Prey sparked up debate online on CGI vs Practical Effects. Before CGI was a thing, it was all practical all the time due to necessity. However, in the years since Jurassic Park showed us that CGI can be more impressive in many ways, Hollywood has gone CGI for most everything.