"Demetrius and the Gladiators, " released in 1954, was the sequel to Fox’s box-office smash "The Robe, " which came out one year earlier and ushered in movie going with the introduction of Cinemascope. Whereas "The Robe" [...]
I am not a particular fan of the Anime genre but I know a good film when I see it – or so I claim. ’Samurai X, ’ which has just been released by ADV Films on DVD clearly has to rank as one of the best Japanese animated films I have ever seen. [...]
It’s rare that I find a film that can be ’artsy’ without being pretentious or muddled, but ’Timeless’ is able to pull off this trick quite well. The story in ’Timeless’ is familiar enough. Peter Byrne stars as Terry, an 18-year old street [...]
My slacker days have just come back to haunt me. I’ll come clean: I’ve never read "The Great Gatsby." I took American Literature in college, but the syllabus in that class required "Tender is the Night," which I still managed to [...]
Talon (Lee Horsley) is the legitimate heir to the throne of his father’s kingdom, but he flees the country to save his life when the evil Cromwell (Richard Lynch) is seizing the reign with the help of the sorcerer Xusia (Richard Moll). For year, Talon [...]
After watching ’Nurse Betty’, it’s very easy to see why Renee Zellweger won a Golden Globe for her performance and was nominated for an Oscar. What’s not easy to fathom is why this film was marketed as a light-hearted comedy. Zellweger stars as [...]
"The Legend of Drunken Master" was released theatrically in the U.S. in October 2000 by Disney-owned Dimension Films. The original title of what is arguably Jackie Chan’s finest film is "Drunken Master 2" and it was a smash hit in [...]
You know that a movie is cookin’ when there is a scene in which the villain is about to get caught red-handed and you are on the edge of your seat. This is just an example of the high-quality filmmaking that one can expect from ’Anatomy’, a German [...]
Writer/Director Lars Von Trier (Breaking the Waves) made a splash at the Cannes Film Festival this past year with his re-invention of the musical, "Dancer In the Dark." The film which won the Palm D’or for Best Film, also garnered a Best [...]
Hey, remember that movie that starred Marlon Brando as a guru who lives in the bed of a 18-wheeler, Richard Burton as a drunken poet, Walter Matthau as a general, and Ringo Starr as a Mexican gardener? Me either. But these unlikely teammates were gathered [...]
