So, Guido gives me the DVD of "The Abominable Snowman" and says, "I want you to review this. Have you seen it?" And I replied, "Not Yeti." (OK, now that I’ve gotten my Yeti joke out of the way, on with the review!) [...]
At the height of World War Two, Walt Disney took a group of his artists and headed south to Latin America to conduct research for new animated features. It was hoped that these movies would promote Pan-American unity during this time of great uncertainty [...]
Honored with four Academy Awards in 1969, George Roy Hill’s "Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid" is still one of the most beloved buddy-movies of a great many film fans. Not only did it practically start the genre, but it still stands out as [...]
I find it very interesting that movies that stir up the most fervent controversies the fastest, are films that touch upon religious subjects. As soon as a filmmaker suggests a different view on theological issues, the moral-apostles of the Catholic church [...]
I don’t think that I’ve ever been faced with a film as challenging to review as ’The Minus Man.’ The film is so subtle and dreamlike, that it’s hard to judge. I certainly didn’t hate it, because it’s so innocuous that it would be hard to [...]
I’m not a big fan of the "So bad it’s Good" school of fandom. Ed Wood’s movies have a certain bizarre charm and there’s a stinker called "The Children" that I just love, but other than that, I consider most bad movies to be [...]
In 1970, the controversial German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder set his anarchic eye on the American Western, creating perhaps the strangest oater ever committed to film. Now, after languishing 30 years in obscurity, ’Whity’ returns with a DVD [...]
For the third time Pierce Brosnan is taking on the part of Ian Fleming’s James Bond in the 19th installment of the highly successful series of movies, "The World Is Not Enough." Progressing with the notion to develop Bond a little further, [...]
After Sean Connery resigned as James Bond, finishing "You Only Live Twice, " the men behind the highly successful series of James Bond movies, Harry Salzman and Albert R. Broccoli, faced the challenge to find an actor who could fill Connery’s [...]
Of all the cinematic genres, film fantasy is the most problematic to pull off. The fantasy filmmaker ever strides a tightrope between fleshing out just enough visually to suspend disbelief and allowing the viewer’s imagination to fill in the "gaps, [...]
