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Reviews By Nathan M Rose
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(Nathan M Rose) 8/16/2018 10:59 PM EDT Every once in a while there comes a movie that tugs at your heartstrings and energizes your soul. Alpha is such a movie. Directed by Albert Hughes (From Hell, Menace II Society) it tells a stunning tale of loss, friendship, and courage after a young boy Kodi Smit-McPhee (X-Men: Apocalypse) is left for dead by his tribe and has to find his way... Read More |
 
(Nathan M Rose) 7/10/2018 10:09 AM EDT A Man and his Ape are not soon parted. So when you take the biggest action star in the world, Dwayne Johnson (Skyscraper) and add a large albino ape as a sidekick you get movie theater gold.Rampage is the latest classic video game to get a big screen adaptation. The game was originally released in arcades in 1986 and then hit the home entertai... Read More |
 
(Nathan M Rose) 6/15/2018 1:56 PM EDT In 1974, Charles Bronson (The Great Escape) starred in Death Wish, a film based on the 1972 novel by Brian Garfield. Now, 44 years later, Bruce Willis(Die Hard) has taken up the role of vigilante Paul Kersey in the remake of the film directed by Eli Roth (Hostel) available now on Blu-ray.Paul Kersey is a surgeon in Chicago (in the original novel Ke... Read More |
(Nathan M Rose) 6/12/2018 1:48 PM EDT Back in the 1990s, a little game called Tomb Raider, featuring a female "Indiana Jones" type character named Lara Croft, was introduced to the world. To help the game's appeal to the mostly male gaming audience, she was created with a large bosom and also used two guns versus a whip. The game proved to be a smash hit an... Read More |
(Nathan M Rose) 5/21/2018 4:50 PM EDT Back in the late 1980s, a little film called Die Hard, starring an unknown action star at the time whose only previous body of work was in comedy, came crashing onto the screen and the action genre has never been the same. Now, for its 30th Anniversary, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment is releasing the film like it has never been released b... Read More |
(Nathan M Rose) 5/15/2018 7:50 AM EDT In the 1960s, during the height of the civil rights movement, Marvel comics took a big chance and created a new superhero, Black Panther, from the nation of Wakanda. This land was a more technologically advanced nation than any on Earth. Over time, the character became of the most beloved in the Marvel Universe, and now, in 2018, he finally h... Read More |
(Nathan M Rose) 4/17/2018 9:33 AM EDT Have you ever commuted on a train back and forth to work every day? Have you ever watched your fellow commuters as you did? It is a fascinating study of human nature and one that writers Byron Willinger and Philip de Blasi decided would make for a great script. As they saw the same people all the time on their commute in the northeast t... Read More |
(Nathan M Rose) 3/15/2018 8:11 AM EDT In 2013, Director/Writer/Producer Zack Snyder (300, Watchmen) re-envisioned the DC Universe with the release of Man of Steel. A new take on Superman featuring British actor Henry Cavill (Man from U.N.C.L.E., Mission: Impossible - Fallout), Synder continued his "world building" with follow-up films Batman v. Superman, ... Read More |
(Nathan M Rose) 1/23/2018 9:22 AM EDT In October of 2004, a little unknown film entitled Saw, by then unknown writer/director James Wan (Furious 7) and writer Leigh Whannell, rewrote the modern slasher horror film and created a new modern horror killer, Jigsaw (Tobin Bell; The Flash). It went on to spawn many sequels before it's "finale" in 2010... Read More |
(Nathan M Rose) 1/11/2018 11:23 AM EDT In 1986 a young Stephen King published one of his most ambitious books yet entitled simply It. The novel tells the tale of an alien entity that haunts the fictional town of Derry, Maine, and feeds on its inhabits. In early 1990s ABC gave Pennywise his first appearances on film in a made for tv miniseries. Now 37 years later Warner Bros. gives Penny... Read More |
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