I’ve always been a sucker for the time-paradox. If there’s a decent story about time-traveling and the effects it can have on the present and future, I’m more than certain read or watch it. As such, New Line’s "The Butterfly Effect" was [...]
Warner Home Video has prepared a series of classic film-noir movies, one of which is ’Out Of The Past, ’ a film by Jacques Tourneur starring Robert Mitchum and Kirk Douglas. Boasting Tourneur’s wonderful cinematic style, the film tells the engaging [...]
After countless gigs as the writer of blockbuster movies, David Koepp is becoming more prolific by occasionally directing his own work as well. "Secret Windows" is the latest of these films, written and directed by the writer who penned films [...]
Perhaps one of the most personal films in director John Huston’s canon, 1952’s "Moulin Rouge" captures the severe romanticism of fin de siecle Paris and the legendary artistry of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec with such verve and delicacy that [...]
Blue Underground has prepared a brand new release of William Lustig’s walking-dead shocker ’Uncle Sam.’ The film tells the revenge prowl of a marine who got killed in friendly fire during the first Gulf War. He rises from the Dead just before [...]
No other caricaturist has seen as much notoriety as Al Hirschfeld and the fact that an entire documentary is dedicated to him and his work is further proof of that. For 75 years Al Hirschfeld has created caricatures of the rich and famous. He specialized [...]
One can only hope parents are not intrigued by the word ’Santa’ in the title to buy this film for their children as this is definitely not a kid’s movie! It probably ranks as the most vile Santa film ever made and scores a full 100 on the [...]
For some reason, most of Mel Brooks’ movies are not yet available on DVD. Films such as ’Robin Hood: Men In Tights’, ’High Anxiety’ ’Silent Movie’ or ’The Nude Bomb’ are all still missing form the DVD repertoire. Fortunately however, [...]
In order to make a good movie on the subject of art, the filmmakers first have to understand art, the subject of their endeavor. In the case of "Girl With A Pearl Earring" it is quite evident from the first frame that the filmmakers did indeed [...]
While I do follow the various Star Trek series, much to the disagreement of many fans, I have always found ’Voyager’ to be the best series next to the original show. Don’t ask me, why. It may be that the characters are just a bit more colorful, the [...]
