So, Kevin Costner made a movie back in the 90s. It was a surefire hit. The story line was a direct rip off of The Road Warrior, but instead of a desert it happened in the water. What could go wrong with Waterworld? The movie became one of the bigger box office disasters of the […]
Svengoolie strikes again! I saw this one as I’ve been clearing out my DVR of old Svengoolie episodes and I admit I was jazzed for this one. I’ve heard about this one forever. It Came from Outer Space (1953) was Universal’s first 3D entry directed by Jack Arnold, who would make “Creature of the Black […]
Yeah. I hear ya. That’s a Hammer film. It has a gothic castle. It has really beautiful women in the lead. It has Peter Cushing for goodness’s sake! It’s a Hammer film. True. But it is also a Universal film. That’s the logo at the top of the flick (Universal distributed many, if not all, […]
Joe Dante is not a name like Alfred Hitchcock or Stephen Spielberg in the halls of Universal Studios. He did make Explorers, after all, which wasn’t exactly on their top ten moneymaking movie list. But Joe Dante very well might be one of moviedom’s most knowledgeable movie fans. He loves movies. I mean he really, […]
The Nutty Professor (1996) is a remake featuring Eddie Murphy. The original, unfortunately, was made by Paramount (LOL) by Jerry Lewis in 1963. Many consider the original comedy classic. Personally, I’m not a huge fan. I always thought “Buddy Love” was a gigantic tool and the professor character was over the top. In the remake […]
It was inevitable that one of my first Universal reviews in this new column would be a classic Universal horror picture. One of the things people forget when revisiting a film like this, be on Amazon Prime, or Svengoolie on Me-TV, or at a revival film series at a local cineplex is these movies were […]
Today, we are launching a new column: Universally Loved. This will be a banner for discussions regarding Hollywood’s most entertaining and hard working studio. Disney, of course, has about 500 podcasts based entirely on their theme parks. People discuss the award-heavy Columbia and Paramount. Disney+ is in the news frequently as they purchase franchise after […]
