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Transformers The Movie – 40th Anniversary – Post Credits Scene Prime Awakening – The Film Buff Review

  • Posted by PETER A DELUCA AKAPD
  • On September 27, 2026
Forty years after Transformers: The Movie put Optimus Prime on a slab, the 40th-anniversary re-release — branded The Apology Tour — tacks on a new 12-minute animated sequence: Prime Awakening. In this Film Buff review, Peter A. DeLuca breaks down the post-credits afterlife scene, the Matrix hand-off, the multiverse nods (yes, even Bayverse Prime), and […]
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Lenny (1974) – The Film Buff Reivew

  • Posted by PETER A DELUCA AKAPD
  • On September 15, 2026
Lenny (1974) Review: Bob Fosse, Dustin Hoffman, and the Best Stand-Up Comedy Biopic Ever Made Lenny (1974) is not a greatest-hits tour of Lenny Bruce’s act. Bob Fosse’s black-and-white biopic—adapted by Julian Barry from his own play—is about what it felt like to be in the room: the speed of the romance with Honey, the […]
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Fandango (1985) – The Film Buff Reivew

  • Posted by PETER A DELUCA AKAPD
  • On September 15, 2026
Fandango (1985) Review: Kevin Reynolds, Early Kevin Costner, and Judd Nelson’s Coming-of-Age Road Trip Before Bull Durham, before Field of Dreams, before Dances With Wolves turned Kevin Costner into a 1990s brand, there was Fandango (1985)—Kevin Reynolds’ feature debut and one of the sharpest coming-of-age road movies of young Hollywood. What later got recut in […]
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SHOW – LIFE – HEALTH – UPDATE – AKAPAD THE FILM BUFF PODCAST

  • Posted by PETER A DELUCA AKAPD
  • On September 10, 2026
AKAPAD The Film Buff Podcast Update: Long COVID Recovery, Philly–Nashville Travel, and 31 Days of Dread 2026 AKAPAD the FILM BUFF podcast · SHOW – LIFE – HEALTH – UPDATE – AKAPAD THE FILM BUFF PODCAST If you just dropped into the feed of feeds, this is the show-life-health episode—not a movie review. Peter A. […]
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The Cartoonist: Jeff Smith, Bone and the Changing Face of Comics (2009) The Film Buff Review

  • Posted by PETER A DELUCA AKAPD
  • On September 5, 2026
The Evolution of Comic Artistry: Jeff Smith, Bone, and the Landscape of Cartoonist Documentaries AKAPAD the FILM BUFF podcast · The Cartoonist: Jeff Smith, Bone and the Changing Face of Comics (2009) The Film Buff Review Summary This video discussion offers an insightful exploration of the 2009 documentary “The Cartoonist: Jeff Smith, Bone, and the […]
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The Shards (2026) The Film Buff Review

  • Posted by PETER A DELUCA AKAPD
  • On September 2, 2026
The Shards (2026) is the FX/Hulu limited series Ryan Murphy and Bret Easton Ellis built from Ellis’s 2023 novel—the same writer who gave us Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction, American Psycho, The Informers, and Glamorama. Set in 1981 Los Angeles, it follows a fictionalized teenage Bret (Igby Rigney) and his Buckley prep-school circle—Kaia […]
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Backrooms (2026) The Film Buff Review

  • Posted by PETER A DELUCA AKAPD
  • On September 2, 2026
Backrooms (2026) is the rare internet nightmare that survived the jump to a real movie. Kane Parsons—the YouTuber behind the Kane Pixels shorts that made yellow wallpaper and buzzing fluorescents feel like a trap—directs his feature debut from a Will Soodik script, with James Wan among the producers and A24 releasing it. Chiwetel Ejiofor plays […]
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Green Lantern (2011) The Film Buff Review

  • Posted by PETER A DELUCA AKAPD
  • On September 2, 2026
Fifteen years later, the 2011 Green Lantern movie starring Ryan Reynolds still occupies a strange spot in superhero cinema. Directed by Martin Campbell (Casino Royale, The Mask of Zorro) and shaped by Geoff Johns’ modern Green Lantern mythology, the $200 million Warner Bros. film opened to mixed-to-negative reviews, a 25% Rotten Tomatoes score, and a […]
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Green Lantern: First Flight (2009) – The Film Buff Review

  • Posted by PETER A DELUCA AKAPD
  • On September 2, 2026
Green Lantern: First Flight (2009) Review: The Best Hal Jordan Origin Story Still Holds Up In this Film Buff review, Peter A. DeLuca (AKAPAD) breaks down Green Lantern: First Flight (2009), the first full-length animated origin for Hal Jordan outside the comics. Written by DC animation veteran Alan Burnett and directed by Lauren Montgomery, the […]
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