Often tongue-in-cheek, Larry David (co-creator of Seinfeld) never ceases to amaze me at the amount humor he can load into any given situation, thanks in part to his say and do whatever he wants attitude, in the award-winning HBO comedy series "Curb [...]
Let's not get this confused with David Cronenberg's steamy 1996 film, as the two couldn't be more different. "Crash" is one of those movies that seems to be on everyone's backburner. Everyone has heard of it, but not many [...]
It is a dangerous gamble to mix Jane Fonda with Jennifer Lopez on the screen. The rift in talent is just brutal and as expected, "Mother-In-Law" is really Fonda's film with Lopez lost somewhere in the trenches, hopelessly struggling, and [...]
Okay, I admit it. I decided to check out "Thunderstruck" mostly because of its association with AC/DC. A film that centers around the band should be fun, and as it turns out "Thunderstruck" is a wonderful dedication to AC/DC's [...]
It is one of the Internet Movie Database's top 250 movies ever. It was given four stars by Roger Ebert. Harry Knowles liked it so much he recorded a commentary track for the Region 3 DVD. So how come most people haven't heard of [...]
Gillian Armstrong's 1986 musical comedy was s mash hit in its native Australia but also managed to gather a serious cult following here in the United States and Europe. Filled with 80s pop-rock tunes and a whole lot of upbeat charisma, "Star [...]
In their "Film Noir" line of DVD releases, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment has now prepared the 1945 spy thriller "The House On 92nd Street." With high hopes I checked out the film but soon found that it has aged so badly that it [...]
Let's think for a minute about the potentially disastrous career move that Robert Rodriguez made when taking on "Sin City". First of all, there are the fans. The die hard fans who know the comics inside and out will be judging every scene [...]
Never change a winning horse, they say, and usually that turns out to be good advice. In the case of making movie sequels sometimes it would be better to cash in the winnings and leave it at that. "The Ring Two" is such a case, sadly, where [...]
There are some things I just can't say "No" to. Sherlock Holmes movies and stories are one of them. When 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment dropped a DVD version of "Prelude To Murder" I was more than eager to check it out, of [...]
