Billy Wilder’s 1950 masterwork "Sunset Boulevard" seems all the more miraculous given the circumstances and times in which it was made. 1950 was the height of the Communist witch-hunts; anyone named "un-American" whether in front of [...]
With ’The First $20 Million’ 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment is serving up a hip comedy around today’s technology craze. While initially you may think it’s a film about a dot-com, it turns out the movie is a about a group of young and wacky [...]
Since it’s formation in 1985, the Farm Aid concerts have raised nearly $25 million to support America’s working farmers and their families, increasing public awareness of their struggle to maintain a livelihood in providing agricultural goods to the [...]
’Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. Rumble, young man, rumble!’ So went the mantra of one of the greatest fighters of our time, Muhammad Ali. Though, by its title, this new DVD from Facets Video might be confused with the 1977 Ali bio-drama, [...]
"Who do you trust when everyone’s a crook?" – Queensryche After Al Pacino was put on the map as an actor in Francis Ford Coppola’s "The Godfather" – yes it was his very first leading part – he followed up the critical success [...]
The 1940 Alexander Korda production of ’The Thief of Bagdad’ remains to this day the definitive treatment of the classic ’1001 Arabian Nights’ fables. Created at a time of looming global warfare, the film must have offered a great escape from the [...]
Ah the 50s and 60s, golden times for big movies… When we think of epic-scale films of the time, "Spartacus, " "Ben Hur," or "Battle Of Britain" come to mind immediately… and "Exodus." Based on the acclaimed [...]
For some time now the Baby Einstein series of DVDs is being released through the Walt Disney label and it was time for me to take a look at their latest offering, ’Baby Beethoven.’ All Baby Einstein releases are directly targeted a babies and toddlers [...]
After all the bombastic – but utterly shallow and disappointing – crop of movies we get to see these days as Hollywood’s outpour, recently I found myself in the mood for some retro-action. I wanted something that doesn’t race by me at the speed of [...]
A strange thing happened this past summer. Not only did I not see "Goldmember" in the theaters, but I wasn’t inundated with catchphrases coming out of the mouths of everyone who had in fact seen it. On the contrary, this third installment of [...]
