"Get Rich or Die Tryin'" is the "loosely based" story of Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson (known to fans as "Fiddy Cent", the thug pronunciation for 50 Cent). Borrowing heavy amounts of various elements and events from [...]
Following the success of "Basic Instinct", Sharon Stone took on another sex charged role in the 1993 urban thriller "Sliver". Thinking back on this film, you can't help but get a sense that filmmakers were simply trying to [...]
After seeing John Carpenter's "Cigarette Burns" I simply HAD to also check out Stuart Gordon's entry in the "Masters Of Horror" series. His entry in this anthology is entitles "Dreams In The Witch House" and hardly [...]
Following their disastrous big budget incarnation of "Godzilla, " Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin also initiated a cartoon series based on their Americanized recreation of the destructive lizard. This time the cult icon is not only coming to [...]
I have always admired the acting of Phillip Seymour Hoffman, needless to say I was overjoyed at his winning of the "Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role" at this years Academy Awards for his portrayal of the writer Truman Capote. The [...]
Ever since I saw these films many, many years ago I have been a fan of Margaret Rutherford's seminal portrayal of Agatha Christie's lovable character, Miss Marple. I hadn't seen the films that make up this collection in a while so I was [...]
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment is on a roll currently, releasing a good batch of Mel Brooks film on DVD, finally, and in the wake of it, also bringing us the films of one of Brooks' closest collaborators, Gene Wilder. Here we have the 1975 [...]
Based on the best-selling novel by Frank Peretti, "The Visitation" is a supernatural thriller with the slightest bit of horror element thrown in for good measure. Although I would not classify "The Visitation" as a bad movie, during [...]
Coming on three discs, Warner Home Video is continuing their release line up of the "Tales From The Crypt" series, matching the previous season DVD sets in appearance and content. Featuring all 14 episodes of the show's third season, it is [...]
The disintegration of what appears on the surface to be a near perfect marriage is the focus for "Gosford Park" writer/director Julian Fellowes in his latest film "Separate Lies." Life for James (Tom Wilkinson) and Anne Manning (Emily [...]