Back Seat Producers

I used to make fun of these movies.
Yep, I just had no appreciation for them whatsoever, and so they were something that I just made fun and had contempt for.
That all changed a few years ago when Fox premiered So You Think You Can Dance. Now here’s the deal, I had no intention of [...]

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A woman named Evelyn Salt is held captive in North Korea. The North Koreans believe her to be a spy and even under extreme torture, Salt denies it (though it is true), maintaining that she’s an executive with a petroleum company. Eventually though she’s released in a spy exchange. It was something [...]

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Dom Cobb specializes in the world of corporate espionage. He has a reputation for being the best in the business for finding the deepest of corporate secrets. He does this through the infiltration of dreams and using a specialized technology that lets him and his associates construct a shared dream world. Once [...]

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When you see the logo for Robert Rodriguez’s Troublemaker Studios, you can pretty much bet that if you enjoy genre entertainment, you’re in for a good time.
Producer Robert Rodriguez was pretty much given carte blanche from 20th Century Fox to do something with the Predator franchise. And I think that he and director Nimrod [...]

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M. Night Shyamalan, I really was rooting for you.
After making a big splash with movies like The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable and Signs, an M. Night Shyamalan movie was something like a mini-event when it would come along. These were nice movies that embraced genre filmmaking and all punctuated with a twist of some sort, [...]

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Near the end of the Civil War, Confederate officer Jonah Hex turns on his commander, Quentin Turnbull as Turnbull is about to lay waste to a hospital full of innocents. As a result of this, Hex in turn kills Turnbull’s brother, Jeb. The war is over and Hex is living a peaceful life [...]

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Young Andy isn’t as young as he used to be, he’s now 17 and he’s not playing with his toys any more. Andy’s about ready to go off to college and now Woody, Buzz Lightyear and all of the rest of our Toy Story friends are worried about their future. Woody, of course [...]

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By coincidence, (or as one character of this movie might think, extreme planning), four elite Army Rangers come together on one special mission. Those men are:
• Colonel Hannibal Smith, known for having a plan for everything.
• Lt. Templeton “Faceman” Peck, a smooth talker and Smith’s comrade for this mission.
• Sergeant Bosco “B.A.” Baracus, [...]

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In the world of genetics, Clive Nikoli and Elsa Kast are rock stars. They’ve been working on combining parts of the DNA of various animals and they’ve been succeeding. They’re working for a pharmaceutical company who’s end goal is to profit from the protein compound that they’re promising to deliver. Clive and Elsa [...]

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A young orphaned boy, Dastan, living in the streets, displays an amazing bit of courage that impresses King Sharaman of Persia. The King, so impressed, adopts the boy and over the years, Dastan grows up to be a fine warrior and leader, though somewhat rougher around the edges than his brothers, Garsiv and Tus. [...]

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King Richard The Lionheart is fighting an unpopular war with France. One of his best archers is a man named Robin Longstride. On a night before the big taking of a castle, King Richard wants to know what an honest man thinks of his war, and Robin Longstride, who’s just been in a [...]

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It’s been six months since Tony Stark has revealed to the world that he is Iron Man. In that time, Iron Man has become a deterrent to other nations aggressive to the United States. That isn’t enough for the United States though, as they want Stark to fully turn over the Iron Man [...]

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An elite CIA Black Ops team is in Bolivia to kill a special target. Led by Colonel Clay, the team consists of Roque, a knife expert and Clay’s second-in-command, Jensen, a specialist in tech and communication, Cougar, an expert sniper and Pooch, their transportation expert. They’re in Bolivia to take out a drug [...]

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High School student Dave Lizewski doesn’t want a normal life. He’s a geek, he reads comic books, spends too much time on his computer and girls don’t dig him. One day, Dave is sitting with a couple of his friends in his local comic shop and ponders the question of why no one [...]

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Clash of the Titans tells us the story of Perseus, a young man who discovers that he is the mortal son of the Greek god, Zeus, though he was raised by a normal (and god-fearing) family of fishermen. Through the start of the film, questions are raised of the validity of the gods by [...]

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