’The Butcher’s Wife’ is a charming and heartfelt story of a young clairvoyant woman (Demi Moore), who is transplanted from the countryside to the Big Apple as she marries a Greenwich Village butcher. There her life changes and quickly her psychic [...]
When considering films from the East that dealt with old fables, I typically think of the Chinese films of Tsui Hark and his contemporaries. However, these films also come from Japan, and the recently released ’Moon Over Tao’ is a great introduction [...]
Every time cult director John Carpenter is releasing a new movie, horror fans are feverishly awaiting the results. In the past, the director has delivered a number of memorable movie and horror moments and with his latest project, "Ghosts Of [...]
Bergman, Grant, Hitchcock…a recipe for cinematic success if ever there was one. Made in 1946, "Notorious" is a dark film that isn’t afraid to reveal the morally ambiguous nature of the espionage trade — a fairly bold stroke given [...]
It seems that time travel is one of those rare movie concepts that never goes stale. The combination of a fish out of water and the various theories concerning the dire consequences on the future of a romp in past make it possible for every time travel [...]
"Jurassic Park" was and still is landmark achievement and the single best dinosaur film ever banned on celluloid to date. Sadly the film was followed up by a poor sequel with "The Lost World, " a movie in which nothing really felt [...]
One of Artisan’s highly touted films is now on DVD. It is the Mob comedy ’Made, ’ in which two small time mob-runners (Vince Vaughn and Jon Faverau) are given a big job in New York, only to mess it up with their innate inability. Sadly, not much of [...]
As someone who prides himself on keeping up with horror films, I don’t know how I missed this little gem, originally entitled ’Plankton’. After taking a motorized inflatable raft for a pleasure cruise in the ocean (!?), five young people find [...]
"Osmosis Jones" is quite a surprise, emerging as a funny and clever comedy for adults and kids alike. Bill Murray stars as zookeeper Frank, the man who will eat anything. After eating an egg, which had been in the mouth of a monkey, the film [...]
Yet another in the long line of American International Pictures film projects based on Edgar Allen Poe stories, ’War-Gods of the Deep’ is a rousing undersea adventure. The original title of the film was ’The City Under the Sea’ and that moniker [...]
