Tag: Brendan Fraser

  • Action Figures: G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

    Action Figures: G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

    It’s tempting to throw up one’s hands in despair that the well of source material for movies has dropped this precipitously low, to the level of plastic action figures. To be fair, trash (escapist or just plain trashy trash) has existed since the very first days of the medium. But cinema’s early conception as a…

  • Mummy’s Boy: The Mummy 3: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

    Mummy’s Boy: The Mummy 3: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

    Perhaps it was the mood I happened to be in the day I saw it in 1999, but I will freely admit I loved The Mummy, the first film in the latter day incarnation of the 1930s MGM horror franchise. In concert with Simon West and Jan De Bont’s pair of Tomb Raider films, The…