The success The Lord of the Rings created a boom in fantasy film-making, with some very good stuff resulting, but with every boom must come a bust, and thus here we have Eragon. A failure on almost every possible level, I can't even recommend it as an unintentional comedy; and when a bad fantasy film cannot even be that, it's a sure sign of how utterly wretched it is. The … [Read more...]
Review: Con Air (1997)
[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=that film guy&asin=B000PI3UEK][/pullquote] The late 1990s was an interesting time for the action film sub-genre. Mainstays of the genre were getting older and actors like Schwarzenegger, Stallone and Willis were trying their hand at different styles of film. The world needed someone new … [Read more...]