As a world war raged in 1939, the young Republic of Ireland decided to remain neutral. To preserve this status, any German or Allied combatants who wound up in Ireland were interred in POW camps until the end of hostilities. ’The Brylcreem Boys’ is [...]
’Alien Nation’ is a competent sci-fi/action film that flirts with being a great movie. The film is set in the not-too-distant future, where a group of extraterrestrials have migrated to Earth and made their homes in and around Los Angeles. The aliens [...]
Columbia TriStar Home Video has hidden some hidden features on their DVD release of the remake of “Charlie’s Angles.” From the disc’s main menu, go to the “Special Features” section. On each of the three Special Features menus that are in this [...]
Can you spell "monumental?" Today that word starts with a "C" and ends with "leopatra." Among all monumental film epics, "Cleopatra" has to be the mother of them all. The film broke records, caused scandals, and was [...]
I had heard the name Hal Hartley mentioned many-a-time when the subject of independent film was raised, but it wasn’t until now that I actually viewed one of his movies. ’The Unbelievable Truth’ was one of Hartley’s earliest works, and it falls [...]
After quite a few consecutive box-office duds, ’The 6th Day’ marked something of a return to form for über action star Arnold Schwarzenegger. While certainly not up to the standards of ’The Terminator, ’ or even ’Total Recall,’ the film is [...]
Hitchcock had already achieved extensively in a wide range of capacities during the silent era of the movies. The British film industry’s silent era produced no talents remembered principally for this medium, so Hitchcock pretty much had the field to [...]
In Paul Bartel’s ’Lust in the Dust, ’ everybody’s favorite transvestite Divine plays Rosie Velez, a luckless chanteuse who crosses paths with taciturn drifter Abel Wood (Tab Hunter) on the road to dusty Chile Verde, New Mexico. Rosie plans to [...]
"The Sword in the Stone" is the animated Disney interpretation of T. H. White’s masterpiece novel of the same name. While featuring the usual degree of daft musical numbers and comedy, the film is seriously lacking in the story department and [...]
When David Lean’s 1962 epic "Lawrence of Arabia" first appeared on movie screens, it was hailed as an evolutionary leap in large-scale filmmaking and storytelling. When it blazed in 1989 again, courtesy of an extensive restoration to its [...]
