John McTiernan

Last Action Hero Written by Zak Penn, Adam Leff, Shane Black, and David Argott Directed by John McTiernan USA, 1993 The concept of a film within a film is an idea that provides for truly interesting cinema. Films that are self-referential, satiric, and make fun of their own genre are often hilarious, thought-provoking, and downright …

For every Terminator there’s a Running Man, each Total Recall let down by Eraser. One of his best films, ironically, is not really a Schwarzenegger film at all, and one that in unlikely standards spawned a franchise to match that of Skynet and the latterly merged Alien franchise.