This movie was based from the 1982 novel by Stephen King, entitled “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemptionâ€. But take note, the late great sex symbol Rita Hayworth was never on the film, but her pin-up served more than just an inspiration (or male energy & imagination inducer) for a guy who’s imprisoned.
It has a very [...]
Tagline: You were warned never to push Carrie to the limits. Now you must face the evil consequences.
Carrie is a 98-minute coming-of-age horror story, pretty much a fusion of the minds of writer Stephen King and director Brian de Palma. Sissy Spacek played the role of Carrie White, and she did her job well. This [...]
The Shining is titled as such for it is what the characters (Jack and Danny Torrance) dubbed their supernatural visions of past and future horrific events. The movie revolves around a regular person named Jack Torrance who has evolved into a madman (ably played by Jack Nicholson). The movie was directed (and written for [...]
This story resembles Stephen King’s other work, The Shawshank Redemption, on two points: first, the movie is about a person suffering from a lingering bad situation i.e. she is incarcerated; and second, despite that odd, the person finds a way to squirm herself out of the situation. Well, not literally, because Dolores Claiborne (Kathy Bates’s [...]
Watching James Caan in a seemingly invincible role in Las Vegas transforming into an invalid in this movie seems so breathtaking and pitiful to watch. Here, we see James Caan at the mercy of a woman (played by Kathy Bates who will later win an Oscar for her role here). Misery is [...]
Tagline: A game nobody survives. But Schwarzenegger has yet to play.
The Running Man is a premonition of two things. First, it is about a reality show, long before reality shows were a fad. The movie is all about a game show called The Running Man where convicts get a chance to regain their freedom [...]
The Green Mile is excruciatingly more than three hours long. It is intentionally made that way by the director not to bore us but so we can relate how excruciatingly long the characters are in walking through the green mile. The Green Mile mentioned in the movie is actually the path where a death row [...]
