The Great Depression. Not a time one would generally associate with laugh out loud humor but Hollywood has an odd tendency to release great comedy films during times of national hardship and struggle. Poking fun at the very real circumstances of the time [...]
Tony Richardson’s disjointed, sluggish adaptation of John Irving’s novel ’The Hotel New Hampshire’ charts the tribulations of the oddball Berry clan. How weird are they? ’Father’ (Beau Bridges) perpetually dreams of running any hotel named [...]
In the spring of 1997 a small film came to theaters that was quite different from the crop that was showing at the time. The movie was "Waiting for Guffman, " a vehicle written, and directed by Christopher Guest, who also stars in the film and [...]
In front of the camera, Joan Crawford was a respected actress, whose silver screen achievements have long become legendary and movie history. Behind the camera however, Joan Crawford was a very different person. Her private life was riddled by depressions [...]
After his antics in the original film, the lovable robot Number five – Johnny Five that is – is back for more in the sequel ’Short Circuit 2.’ This time, Johnny is taking to the big city. Trying to blend in with society, Johnny five quickly turns [...]
When horror film fans discuss the pioneers who have influenced, changed, and shaped the genre over the past 25 years, names such as Romero, Carpenter, Raimi, Craven, and Argento are mentioned. It can easily be argued that directors such as these began [...]
TV productions have generally a bad reputation. While one could assume that he limited budget of these productions makes them less appealing than their theatrical counterparts, in most cases, the shortcomings are in the script. Fortunately this is not the [...]
"Batman: The Movie" was certainly the least likely film to be released on DVD as a Special Edition, but fortunately a group of fans within 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment directly lobbied the movie, and here we have it the "Holy Special [...]
The sixth and final installment in ADV Films’ line of DVD releases of the ’Martian Successor Nadesico’ series is once again, a showcase for the quality DVD can achieve with animation films, when treated properly. An alien triggers the final showdown [...]
Over his forty-four year career as a director, Howard Hawks tried his hand at just about every conceivable film genre including musicals ("Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"), gangster films ("Scarface"), and Westerns ("Rio Bravo"). [...]
