It has been quite a while since "Bride Of Chucky" stirred up horror fans and elevated the killer doll franchise to new heights, thanks to an imaginative story, a wonderfully paced film and atmospheric cinematography. Even though Ronny Yu has not [...]
The Eagles, one of the all-time classic bands with roots that go back to the phenomenally popular era of seventies rock in Southern California, showcase their musical talents in their latest live DVD endeavor, ’The Eagles: Farewell 1 Tour: Live from [...]
Maybe it’s just me, but I always felt the 80s were the most glorious time for wrestling, a time when the WWF – today’s WWE – featured some of its most colorful, powerful and captivating superstars. Today’s wrestling resembles more of a [...]
When a grumpy and repressed convenience store worker named Sylvia Stickles, played by Tracey Ullman, has a freak accident causing her to experience a minor concussion, her personality is altered in a very peculiar way. Rushing to her aid is sexy tow truck [...]
Always likeable Will Smith stars as Alex ’Hitch’ Hitchens, a smooth and sophisticated ’date doctor’ who has gained an almost urban legend status in and around Manhattan in the romantic comedy ’Hitch.’ Accepting clients by reference only, Alex [...]
’Casino’ is director Martin Scorsese’s telling of the rise and fall of mobster Sam ’Ace’ Rothstein played by Robert De Niro, a character based on real-life gangster Frank ’Lefty’ Rosenthal. The setting is 1973 Las Vegas, a time when the Mob [...]
Virtually all Hollywood studios spend more time these days remaking classic movies – many of which really don’t need remakes – than thinking up new concepts. Here now we have a modern-day remake of John Carpenter’s cult classic [...]
Miramax Home Entertainment celebrates the tenth anniversary of ’Sling Blade’ on DVD, Billy Bob Thornton’s directorial debut based on the short film ’Some Folks call it a Sling Blade’, for which he won a 1996 Academy Award for ’Best Adapted [...]
’The Machinist’ is a dark and often times gritty-looking film that has the right mix of dark humor to take the viewer inside the world of a shockingly, ghostly-looking insomniac, Trevor Reznik, played by Christian Bale (who reportedly lost sixty or [...]
When I went to college, Siegfried Lenz’s ’Das Feuerschiff (The Lightship)’ was required reading for all students and I remember how impressed I was with how different the story was from the typically boring and stuffy material we were required to [...]
