With famous novels of a certain age it is always hard to exactly pinpoint who owns what and as such it sometimes happens that multiple people actually own movie rights in a certain property. This is the case with H.G. Wells’ 1898 novel ’The War Of The [...]
Empire Pictures is bringing us here a fascinating film about "what could have been." In 1815 Napoleon Bonaparte loses the battle of Waterloo and is exiled to the island of St. Helena in the Atlantic Ocean. History tells us that he dies there in [...]
This 1966 Western, directed by Richard Brooks, brings together some of the greatest genre stars of its time. Spearheaded by Lee Marvin and Burt Lancaster in wonderfully charismatic performances that ooze of the chemistry between the two, the cast also [...]
Clint Eastwood stars as boxing trainer Frankie Dunn, in the story of female boxer Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank) determined to fulfill her one and only dream of becoming a champion, in the Academy Award winning "Million Dollar Baby". Eastwood [...]
Having seen the film ’The Boondock Saints’ and hearing the stories behind the story of how this film came to be, I decided to view the documentary ’Overnight’. This is the story of Troy Duffy, a Boston bartender who gets a shot at stardom, after [...]
With this latest onslaught of thriller and suspense films to hit DVD, all with similar pace and storylines, it’s easy to get them confused with one another. Though not groundbreaking, ’Hide and Seek’ manages to rise slightly above the pack, thanks [...]
"The first dead man on Omaha beach must be a sailor", Admiral William Jessup (Melvyn Douglas) says with the unmistakable self-assurance that could only come from a very sick mind. You see, the Admiral has a few loose screws but that has not [...]
To be honest, I never heard about or had the chance to experience the musical performances of Klaus Nomi (born under the name Klaus Sperber in Essen, Germany in 1944) until I had the opportunity to see the documentary ’The Nomi Song: The Klaus Nomi [...]
In Hollywood it is only a matter of time until even the most hard-ass action stars attempt to show us their ’softer’ side and take on a more family-friendly role. This time it’s Vin Diesel’s turn in Walt Disney’s ’The Pacifier.’ Diesel plays [...]
Nowadays, it is hard to understand that throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, director Walter Hill was considered one of the most original, talented American directors. An action-junkies’ darling and a venerated figure among film cultists, Hill was [...]
