H. R. Giger will Live on in Our Nightmares
by Jason Koenigsberg H.R. Giger has passed away. You may not be familiar with his name but if you have ever seen a film from the Alien franchise you are familiar with […]
If you Need an Actor to Scream in Pain… Paul Dano is Your Man!
by Jason Koenigsberg A friend of mine recently watched Prisoners, one of my favorite films of 2013, and he made an interesting comment to me. He said that once again Paul Dano […]
Pan and Slam Essentials: “An American Werewolf in London”
by Jason Koenigsberg “From the director of Animal House comes a different kind of animal” is one of the best and most accurate taglines in cinema history for 1981’s An […]
The Blind Side: Reprehensible Hollywood Racism at its Finest
The Biggest Disappointments: The Blind Side by Jason Koenigsberg The Blind Side was a pathetic example of Hollywood racism. The fact that Sandra Bullock won the Best Actress Academy Award in 2009 […]
Captain America 2 Delivers the Action, Excitement, and Solid Craftsmanship
Movie Review: Captain America: The Winter Soldier by Jason Koenigsberg Anyone who is familiar with me knows that I have not been the biggest fan of Marvel Studios output. I […]
Mark Wahlberg: Evolution of a Star
by Jason Koenigsberg Last night the MTV Movie awards gave their “Generation” Award to Mark Wahlberg. That is the equivalent of the Oscar’s “Lifetime Achievement” award. Wahlberg is more than […]
“Rain Man” was Good for all the Wrong Reasons… Which is Why I HATED It
The Biggest Disappointments: Rain Man (1988) by Jason Koenigsberg Rain Man is a film that has some very good aspects to it. Mainly the acting with top-notch performances from its two […]
“Bringing Out the Dead”: The Forgotten Scorsese Masterpiece
The Essentials: “Bringing Out the Dead” 1999 by Jason Koenigsberg The Pan and Slam Essentials are intended to highlight great personal favorite films and underrated classics. Bringing Out the Dead […]
If you Have a Chance, Check into “The Grand Budapest Hotel”
Movie Review: The Grand Budapest Hotel By Jason Koenigsberg Wes Anderson is more one of the most distinctive directors working today, yet I consider him to be more of an […]
Arnold Gets Serious in the Exceedingly Bloody Sabotage
Movie Review: Sabotage By Jason Koenigsberg The Arnold comeback parade continues in 2014 with David Ayer’s gritty, cop thriller Sabotage. I was a fan of The Last Stand, Schwarzenegger’s first […]
The Biggest Disappointments: Jackie Brown
Jackie Brown… When Good Directors Go Bad by: Jason Koenigsberg Jackie Brown is not a terrible movie, just very disappointing. In fact there are some great aspects of this film. […]
The Biggest Disappointments: Fight Club
Fight Club was most disappointing considering the obsessive fan base it created. Unfortunately this movie came out my junior year of high school and so its target demographic, young white […]
The 10 Best Screenplays of All Time
The most influential scripts ever put on film in my humble opinion. These are films where everything worked out perfectly in the right place with great acting, directing, editing and everything else. Yet all of these films have some of the most influential dialogue and narrative structures ever put on celluloid. It was hard to narrow down the best scripts […]
Harold Ramis: Tribute to a Comedy Legend
“When we watched his movies … we didn’t just laugh until it hurt. We questioned authority. We identified with the outsider. We rooted for the underdog. And through it all, […]
Top 10 Best Movie Endings
This is encapsulates my personal favorite movie endings, they are ranked by the ending not by the film. Each of these endings are ones that left a huge impact on me and my impression of the film. 10. Unforgiven Probably the best ending in any western and that is saying a lot considering High Noon and Shane. For almost two hours we hear […]
The Biggest Disappointments: 300
300… was more disappointing than finding out you have 300 days to live http://www.wildaboutmovies.com/images_3/300MoviePoster3.jpg Many people consider their greatest motion picture disappointment of their lives to be Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. I however reserve my greatest theater going movie disappointment to be for a film that I foolishly hyped up for myself, not one that the media […]
