Just in case you hadn’t seen Die Hard. Olympus Has Fallen (2013): The Plot: Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) is a really good Secret Service agent. Probably the best. Benjamin Asher (Aaron Eckhart) is the President of America. He’s probably not the best, but he’s white and fairly likeable, so he’s definitely up there. Mike Banning…
So, dedicated reader, perhaps over the months you’ve thought to yourself, “What kind of guy is this author of Second Breakfast?” Then again, maybe you haven’t. If you have, then it’s time to celebrate. All is about to be answered! Sure, I’ve talked a little about myself in some past articles, when appropriate, but I’ve…
If you were anything like me as a child, you likely frequented the cable movie channels alone, searching desperately for some horror movie that you knew, were your parents around, that you would be roundly punished for watching. The opportunity to have a young imagination stretched beyond its somewhat benign capacities and into a world…
Baddie – Asylum Films. Lesson – If you want to watch something about time travel and dinosaurs, watch Primeval. If you read SciFridays with any kind of regularity, you’re familiar with Asylum films. I have a strong love/hate relationship with them. For instance, I enjoyed Two-Headed Shark Attack but I hated Megapiranha. They focus on making movies that…
I think I’ve said this before, but perhaps not so succinctly: “The Following” is successful when it simultaneously embraces normalcy and chaos. The opening scene this week of Joe preaching is a perfect example of that. It seems so utterly natural for a man to be talking to a group of people, getting them jazzed,…
Remember a few weeks back when I reviewed Oldboy in anticipation of Stoker because all of the advertisements for Stoker seemed to recommend that I try Oldboy, and then I did try Oldboy and I had a minor freak out, but decided in the end that I still wanted to watch Stoker, and I made…
The following review is a guest piece written by Erik French, older brother of the esteemed Colin French of Strange Bacon Reviews. He is more of a scholar, yet less of a gentleman. He cares about Asia, and about bad movies written based on video games. So without further ado, here is his piece on the latest…
