The Sci-Fi Chronicles now plunges me into the most successful video game/film adaptation to date, based on Capcom’s Resident Evil series, the film brings the survival horror nature of the addictive and occasionally terrifying video games to the theatrical world. This entire series has been a guilty pleasure for me, and I was happy…
Tag: 2002
Chicago (2002) – Rob Marshall
Rob Marshall not only directs the next title in the recommendations from the Great Movies – 100 Years of Film book, he also choreographed it as well, bringing the classic musical to the big screen with this Best Picture Oscar-winning version of Chicago, based on the musical play by Bob Fosse and Fred Ebb….
Trailer Tracks: Insomnia (2002) – Christopher Nolan
Robin Williams. Everyone thinks he was just a comedian, but he was a Julliard trained actor, and he could bring out his dramatic chops when he needed to, and he went head to head with Al Pacino in Nolan’s thriller…
Rollerball (1975) – Norman Jewison
James Caan mumbles his way through this entry on the 101 Action Movies list under Norman Jewison’s guidance working from a script by William Harrison (based on his own short story). In a dystopian future when corporations have replaced governments (so you know, sometime around now), the game of rollerball is the only release for…
The Mind Reels 