I am positively, lethally nostalgic for this period in the late 90s and Titanic preserves this feeling more than any piece of media. I never had the chance to see it in theaters; I was in third grade and was laser focused on childish matters but as soon as it hit home video, you better believe that double VHS set was worn out to the nub. I have a distinct memory of sitting in class at my desk and using…

There's a kind of circumstantial poetry to the A-list star power of Michael Douglas ending two weeks after 9/11. Pre-9/11, Mike's a superstar. Post-9/11, it's over. After 9/11, audiences were no longer served Movie Star Douglas, nor were they compelled to seek out Michael Douglas, ever again. Don't Say a Word was the last time he carried mainstream appeal where masses chose to see something because of him.

There is even an old TV spot that references him as "Academy…

A simple fact: action movies have been neutered, half-baked, half-written and served cold for children with Attention Deficit Disorder. Die Hard has aged into a lost art. It has a wholly original, unpredictable screenplay, crisp with sharp dialogue matched with badass line delivery through the mouths of believable human characters (This sentence alone cannot be attributed to a single modern action film). There is a tight plot that gradually escalates, accumulating ZERO gaps in logic equaling to not a single…