Apr

21

Bigger, Blacker, Better, Bombaster… Pitch Black II

April 21, 2007 | 1 Comment

 

 
Okay, so the title wasn’t Pitch Black II, but rather The Chronicles of Riddick (of which there will probably be no more).
A friend laid her finger on the problem with this movie, one that also ailed Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, Highlander II, First Blood Part II, and many another sequel. The second coming aims to […]

Apr

19

The Fallen Ones: Off the Wagon

April 19, 2007 | 1 Comment

I really hadn’t meant to make this blog a sustained attack on the Sci-Fi Channel, though it seems to be starting to evolve in that direction. Besides their occasional great (like Battlestar Galactica) or at least good (The Lost Room) programs,  I think they wind up a sort of dumping ground for things that would have […]

Apr

8

Retread of the Seven

April 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Busy couple of weeks– no time to blog, or, really, to dwell in the realm of cheese, until this evening, when I had to take a moment to note Return of the Seven.
Sometimes things are lost in translation– in the first Amercian/Western film, of course, what was lost was the Samurai. But at least it […]