Malik’s Movie Reviews Past & Present
I Am Ali is the newest documentary on one of the Great American lives. The early great ones (When We Were Kings) gives you an insight into his athletic greatness, last year’s fantastic The Trials of Muhammad Ali finally broke new ground on analyzing his role in the politics of his time. But just, as a man, […]
And so this week is the first but not definitely not the last week that will be full of movie reviews in this space. Interesting part of being around as long as I’ve been around: I’m a proud voting member of the guild I belong to, then I have friends who have projects out […]
The newest Dark Knight film in the Animated Series universe is Assault on Arkham. Set in the Gotham created by the hugely popular video games, in this story 6 rogues (including Deadshot and Harley Quinn) are sent INTO Arkham Asylum for a hit on the Riddler. Batman is initially sent on a wild goose chase […]
The aptly named Vanishing Pearls is a documentary about modern day American capitalism at its worst. A small town community of fishermen make their living catching oysters in the Gulf of Mexico. Then the BP oil spill happens. Ecosystem destroyed. After a little government intervention (ha!), BP does the right thing and offers business reparations to […]
To the current generation of wrestling fans, he’s the ‘advocate’ for the current WWE World Heavyweight Champion, Brock Lesnar. To my generation, he’s the mind behind Extreme Championship Wrestling. And those who came along before me probably got their first taste of him as Paul E. Dangerously, the loudmouth manager whose first great rivalry […]
I’m not a man of regrets as most of you know, but I do wish I moved a little faster and had a film or a performance that was reviewed by Roger Ebert. Along with Gene Siskel, he was America’s (hell, the world’s) film critic, and the new documentary Life Itself captures his personal and professional […]
I can’t really ‘spoil’ a movie about the life of James Brown, can I? I’m in my ‘peak period’ of introspection as some of you know, so on the way home I was comparing filmmaking to life in general (just go with me for a minute). When you have a good thing, don’t mess […]
Alright, as always start with my point of view so you know how to take this… Casual appreciation for the X-Men, I’ve seen all the films of the current generation and the spinoffs. In terms of the comic books themselves, I hadn’t read this story going in, the last X-Men comic I read was […]
So here’s my point of view so you’ll know how to read this one. Not the biggest monster movie buff, not the biggest B movie buff. Also, this is ‘Godzilla’, so there’s no way to really ‘spoil’ this one if you haven’t seen it yet right? The short version is I (and the audience […]
The latest chapter in the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been called the one closest to a ‘real movie’. I get that. Captain America: The Winter Soldier lets us catch up with Marvel’s resident Boy Scout in a post Avengers world. Disclaimer for those who don’t know, when it comes to Marvel, I’m a complete ‘casual […]
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