The 1990s represented a golden epoch for action cinema. This was the time which saw VHS and its digitized successor DVD introduce a whole new generation of fans to the magic of stars like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone. And those titans from the ‘80s still claimed big wins, too, at the box office and home media via the likes of Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Demolition Man, and Cliffhanger.
It was also the decade that saw audiences turn out in droves to theaters and rental stores to catch a glimpse of Steven Seagal’s flying fists in movies like Under Siege or Jean-Claude Van Damme and his trademark splits in Timecop; Jackie Chan finally got the larger American fanbase he so richly deserved thanks to the Rush Hour movies while Bruce Willis gave us Die Hard With A Vengeance, the best of all the Die Hard sequels, before pivoting...
It was also the decade that saw audiences turn out in droves to theaters and rental stores to catch a glimpse of Steven Seagal’s flying fists in movies like Under Siege or Jean-Claude Van Damme and his trademark splits in Timecop; Jackie Chan finally got the larger American fanbase he so richly deserved thanks to the Rush Hour movies while Bruce Willis gave us Die Hard With A Vengeance, the best of all the Die Hard sequels, before pivoting...
- 4/11/2024
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
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“I have a mantra,” says director Peter Hyams. “It was something me and my camera operator, Steve Campanelli had: each morning before we went to shoot we’d put our arms around each other, like football players, and say four things: 1. Go bigger or go home. 2. If it can’t be fixed with a hammer, it can’t be fixed. 3. If it doesn’t fit, force it. 4. Let’s blow shit up.”
As mantras go, it’s hard to argue with the results. With a career that’s included prescient conspiracy thriller Capricorn One (1977), with Elliott Gould and James Brolin; sci-fi Western Outland (1981) with Sean Connery, the Gene Hackman/Anne Archer actioner Narrow Margin (1990) and Jean-Claude Van Damme’s time-traveling fight film Timecop (1994), Hyams, has secured his place in cult cinema history.
It’s also an approach to movie making that informed the career of Hyams’ son,...
“I have a mantra,” says director Peter Hyams. “It was something me and my camera operator, Steve Campanelli had: each morning before we went to shoot we’d put our arms around each other, like football players, and say four things: 1. Go bigger or go home. 2. If it can’t be fixed with a hammer, it can’t be fixed. 3. If it doesn’t fit, force it. 4. Let’s blow shit up.”
As mantras go, it’s hard to argue with the results. With a career that’s included prescient conspiracy thriller Capricorn One (1977), with Elliott Gould and James Brolin; sci-fi Western Outland (1981) with Sean Connery, the Gene Hackman/Anne Archer actioner Narrow Margin (1990) and Jean-Claude Van Damme’s time-traveling fight film Timecop (1994), Hyams, has secured his place in cult cinema history.
It’s also an approach to movie making that informed the career of Hyams’ son,...
- 9/14/2022
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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The Oldenburg Film Festival, Germany’s leading indie film fest, will honor father and son genre filmmakers Peter and John Hymas, with a joint retrospective.
Father Peter Hymas is best known for his cult films of the 1970s and 80s, including the conspiracy drama Capricorn One (1977), about a plot to fake a space mission to Mars, the sci-fi Western Outland (1981) starring Sean Connery, and 2010: The Year We Made Contact (1984), a sequel to Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 sci-fi masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey. In 1994, Hymas scored a late-career hit with Timecop, a time-traveling action movie starring Jean-Claude Van Damme.
The Mussels from Brussels would play a major role in the career of son John Hymas, who revived Van Damme’s other sci-fi action franchise, Universal Soldier, with two sequels: Universal Soldier: Regeneration (2009) and Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012). Alongside numerous TV directing credits, for such series as NYPD Blue,...
The Oldenburg Film Festival, Germany’s leading indie film fest, will honor father and son genre filmmakers Peter and John Hymas, with a joint retrospective.
Father Peter Hymas is best known for his cult films of the 1970s and 80s, including the conspiracy drama Capricorn One (1977), about a plot to fake a space mission to Mars, the sci-fi Western Outland (1981) starring Sean Connery, and 2010: The Year We Made Contact (1984), a sequel to Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 sci-fi masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey. In 1994, Hymas scored a late-career hit with Timecop, a time-traveling action movie starring Jean-Claude Van Damme.
The Mussels from Brussels would play a major role in the career of son John Hymas, who revived Van Damme’s other sci-fi action franchise, Universal Soldier, with two sequels: Universal Soldier: Regeneration (2009) and Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012). Alongside numerous TV directing credits, for such series as NYPD Blue,...
- 8/25/2022
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“Flip or Flop” is anything but a TV ratings flop for Hgtv — Tarek and Christina El Moussa provide the popular Home and Garden cable channel with its No. 2 primetime series. That’s now all in jeopardy, following the marital breakup of the series’ stars. The El Moussas announced their separation to the world on December 12. The first original episode since that news broke was “Narrow Margin Flip,” which received 1.647 million total viewers on Dec. 15. On Dec. 22, “Fast Money Flip” settled for 1.580 million. The proximity to the holidays could explain the 4.1 percent decline for that...
- 1/11/2017
- by Tony Maglio and Tim Kenneally
- The Wrap
I guess Howard Hughes wanted to go easy on Minnesota Nazis. William Cameron Menzies directs a Cold War thriller about an insidious germ warfare conspiracy -- it's an early paranoid suspense tale with apocalyptic consequences. But the story behind the movie's making -- and then remaking -- is even more fantastic. The Whip Hand DVD-r The Warner Archive Collection 1951 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 82 min. / Street Date February 16, 2016 / available through the WBshop / 18.59 Starring Elliott Reid, Raymond Burr, Carla Balenda, Edgar Barrier, Otto Waldis, Michael Steele, Lurene Tuttle, Peter Brocco, Lewis Martin, Frank Darien, Olive Carey, George Chandler, Gregory Gaye. Cinematography Nicholas Musuraca Film Editor Robert Golden Original Music Music by Paul Sawtell Written by George Bricker, Frank L. Moss, Ray Hamilton Produced by Louis J. Rachmil Directed by William Cameron Menzies
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Film writers Bill Warren and Tom Weaver have reported extensively on the unusual production story...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Film writers Bill Warren and Tom Weaver have reported extensively on the unusual production story...
- 6/4/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
BBC
“The Idiot Plot, of course, is any plot that would be resolved in five minutes if everyone in the story were not an idiot. And rarely has there been a film in which more idiots make more mistakes than in this one.”
— Roger Ebert in his review of Narrow Margin (1990)
Roger Ebert once coined the term “idiot plot.” Even if it doesn’t sound familiar, it is something you’ve seen happen multiple times on every storytelling medium, often confused with the term, “plot hole.”
Here is the difference: A plot hole is about breaking the established rules of its film without giving a convincing answer how; asking “How did that happen?”. Example: How did Bruce Wayne return to Gotham without resources and the entire American government watching over it without detection? Basically, the universe puts him there, no one questions it, and the story moves on.
An idiot...
“The Idiot Plot, of course, is any plot that would be resolved in five minutes if everyone in the story were not an idiot. And rarely has there been a film in which more idiots make more mistakes than in this one.”
— Roger Ebert in his review of Narrow Margin (1990)
Roger Ebert once coined the term “idiot plot.” Even if it doesn’t sound familiar, it is something you’ve seen happen multiple times on every storytelling medium, often confused with the term, “plot hole.”
Here is the difference: A plot hole is about breaking the established rules of its film without giving a convincing answer how; asking “How did that happen?”. Example: How did Bruce Wayne return to Gotham without resources and the entire American government watching over it without detection? Basically, the universe puts him there, no one questions it, and the story moves on.
An idiot...
- 8/29/2015
- by Jon Garcia
- Obsessed with Film
When a DVD gets a reissue, its distributor tends to change the artwork. Er, not always for the better...
Movie studios love having large catalogues of older movies. They guarantee a revenue stream after all, through TV sales, streaming services, and the occasional repackaging of a DVD and/or Blu-ray edition.
But new packaging means new artwork, and a star who was hot when the film first came around may have faded since. Plus, audience trends change. Plus, there's the added bonus of luring people to buy two copies. Marvellous!
Most of the time, artwork updates go without a hitch. But in recent times, particularly with 90s movies we've noticed, some of the updates, er, 'dumb things down' slightly. Most of these exhibits are from the UK, we should note. If we broadened it more than we had into the Us - which we may do in a future piece...
Movie studios love having large catalogues of older movies. They guarantee a revenue stream after all, through TV sales, streaming services, and the occasional repackaging of a DVD and/or Blu-ray edition.
But new packaging means new artwork, and a star who was hot when the film first came around may have faded since. Plus, audience trends change. Plus, there's the added bonus of luring people to buy two copies. Marvellous!
Most of the time, artwork updates go without a hitch. But in recent times, particularly with 90s movies we've noticed, some of the updates, er, 'dumb things down' slightly. Most of these exhibits are from the UK, we should note. If we broadened it more than we had into the Us - which we may do in a future piece...
- 4/17/2015
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
Check out this hilarious supercut of character saying "There's No Time To Explain!" via Vulture. The video comes from Slackstory, and was editd by Debbie Saslaw
Here are the movies used in the video:
The Simpsons
Kaboom
101 Dalmatians
If Looks Could Kill
Hey Arnold: The Movie
Greg the Bunny
Kill Speed
Fool's Gold
Les Miserables
Ricochet
Scary Movie 4
The Swan Princess 2
Capricorn 1
A Mighty Wind
Sleeping Beauty
The Thief Lord
The Emperor's New Groove
Beauty and the Beast
Big Fish
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
National Lampoon Presents: Dorm Daze
Without A Paddle: Nature's Calling
The Hidden II
Innerspace
Tin Man
Cellular
Life Size
The Rescuers Down Under
Narrow Margin
Killer Klowns from Outer Space
The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
The Sword and in the Stone
Garfield's Pet Force
Airplane II
Johnny Was
Boston Legal
Ice Spiders
Beyond Loch Ness
Hercules and the Amazon Woman
Capricorn 1
Sin City
Source: Vulture (http://www.
Here are the movies used in the video:
The Simpsons
Kaboom
101 Dalmatians
If Looks Could Kill
Hey Arnold: The Movie
Greg the Bunny
Kill Speed
Fool's Gold
Les Miserables
Ricochet
Scary Movie 4
The Swan Princess 2
Capricorn 1
A Mighty Wind
Sleeping Beauty
The Thief Lord
The Emperor's New Groove
Beauty and the Beast
Big Fish
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
National Lampoon Presents: Dorm Daze
Without A Paddle: Nature's Calling
The Hidden II
Innerspace
Tin Man
Cellular
Life Size
The Rescuers Down Under
Narrow Margin
Killer Klowns from Outer Space
The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
The Sword and in the Stone
Garfield's Pet Force
Airplane II
Johnny Was
Boston Legal
Ice Spiders
Beyond Loch Ness
Hercules and the Amazon Woman
Capricorn 1
Sin City
Source: Vulture (http://www.
- 1/5/2013
- by Jim Napier
- GeekTyrant
Festival-goers will be able to enjoy director's 'own subtle, spectral presence' through his playful choice of films
Martin Scorsese's four specially chosen double bills at the Port Eliot Festival is another reminder of his reputation as someone committed to preserving movie history. It's also part of the new curatorial fashion in film festivals: a big name will be asked to curate (sometimes at long-distance) a strand by personally selecting a number of films with a unifying idea or theme and then putting their name to the resulting event, perhaps with some well-chosen words for the programme. The local organisers do the legwork, locating the actual cans of film, or DVDs, and scheduling the projections.
Scorsese's choices here are droll, and the presence of a railway viaduct at Port Eliot is significant. Murder On The Orient Express is about a murder on a train. Hitchcock's North By Northwest has legendary train scenes.
Martin Scorsese's four specially chosen double bills at the Port Eliot Festival is another reminder of his reputation as someone committed to preserving movie history. It's also part of the new curatorial fashion in film festivals: a big name will be asked to curate (sometimes at long-distance) a strand by personally selecting a number of films with a unifying idea or theme and then putting their name to the resulting event, perhaps with some well-chosen words for the programme. The local organisers do the legwork, locating the actual cans of film, or DVDs, and scheduling the projections.
Scorsese's choices here are droll, and the presence of a railway viaduct at Port Eliot is significant. Murder On The Orient Express is about a murder on a train. Hitchcock's North By Northwest has legendary train scenes.
- 3/26/2011
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Editor’s note: The following is a response to Jai Meghan’s editorial posted on Tuesday, May 18th, by Bruce Broughton for the Amcl.
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In spite of appearing “somewhat confusing . . . ill-prepared . . . scatter-brained . . . misinformed . . . [although] moderately victorious,” I’ll try to clarify some of the points that Jai Meghan brought up in an article that apparently resonated with many others, judging by the list of comments published subsequently.
In order to request recognition as a collective bargaining agency on behalf of composers, the Teamsters will be dealing with those production companies who come under the aegis of the AMPTP. This will, for the time being exclude game composers, commercial composers and composers of library music, not because the composers are inherently unworthy or unwanted, but because these groups have little or nothing to do with the AMPTP, an association of over 350 motion picture and television producers.
The “working composer” phrase should not...
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In spite of appearing “somewhat confusing . . . ill-prepared . . . scatter-brained . . . misinformed . . . [although] moderately victorious,” I’ll try to clarify some of the points that Jai Meghan brought up in an article that apparently resonated with many others, judging by the list of comments published subsequently.
In order to request recognition as a collective bargaining agency on behalf of composers, the Teamsters will be dealing with those production companies who come under the aegis of the AMPTP. This will, for the time being exclude game composers, commercial composers and composers of library music, not because the composers are inherently unworthy or unwanted, but because these groups have little or nothing to do with the AMPTP, an association of over 350 motion picture and television producers.
The “working composer” phrase should not...
- 5/22/2010
- by SCOREcast Team
- SCOREcastOnline.com
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