23 years ago, Tony Scott cheated on Jerry Bruckheimer with Joel Silver and the results were the over-the-top and totally flamboyant The Last Boy Scout, a mean and nasty action flick from the acid-tinged typewriter of genre-master Shane Black. Pairing Bruce Willis with Damon Wayans, on paper, probably seemed like a great idea (to someone…
Luc Besson’s wild and wacky sci-fi action film The Fifth Element is one of the most insane pieces of eye-candy ever devised, with a cartwheeling sense of manic energy, absolutely stunning production values, an overstuffed screenplay, and performances that range all over the map in terms of tone. I can vividly remember seeing this film…
Unbreakable is easily my favorite film from writer/director M. Night Shyamalan, who has had, without a doubt, one of the most fascinating, frustrating, and fantastic careers that any filmmaker has ever had. After taking the world by storm in the late summer of 1999 with his superb ghost movie, The Sixth Sense, he unleashed his…
