Jack is a young chimpanzee who serves as an object of study. He has been taught sign-language and is capable many things that would typically considered human. When his mentor dies, Jack is sold to a laboratory where he would be used as a lab rat and [...]
I always pay close attention to movie titles. I’m not talking about just the movies, I’m talking about the actual name of the movie. While movie stars and plots typically sell a picture, a title can also play a big role into a film’s success. [...]
The odd thing about the film ’C.H.U.D.’ isn’t the story, which deals with cannibalistic monsters living under the streets of New York. (I believe that part.) The odd thing is what’s happened to the cast and crew of ’C.H.U.D.’ since the film [...]
Once again, Anchor Bay has proven that they are the best when it comes to scouring the vaults to bring us forgotten or obscure films. This month, we have ’Iguana’, a rarely-seen film from cult director Monte Hellman (’Two-lane Blacktop’). [...]
During the audio commentary on the newly released DVD ’Sister Sister’, director Bill Condon reveals that the original script for the film was entitled ’The Louisana Swamp Murders’ and dealt with a brother and sister who enjoyed killing tourists, [...]
At times deadly earnest and incongruously surreal, Norman Jewison’s 1979 film "…And Justice for All" still sucker punches in its audacious indictment of the corruption and abuse rampant within the legal system. In the generation since [...]
When thinking of John Woo, most people immediately have a predetermined image in their minds, of dazzling action movies with blazing guns and explosions, choreographed and staged to create an almost lyrical tragedy in the midst of all the mayhem. What [...]
Steve Brooks, a notorious lady’s man and chauvinist has had one affair too many. Extremely unpopular among his countless former flames, Steve is one day invited to a party at one of his girlfriends’ place. What appears to be a sensual private party [...]
Ronnie Ashcroft’s dreadful calling card to the cinema begins as a heist caper, with the abduction of a prominent socialite. The kidnappers almost reach freedom when they encounter the glowing She-Monster on a deserted (what else?) highway. Smashing [...]
1993 seemed to be a year in which romance flourished, full-force, on the big screen. With sweeping, epic love stories like Vincent Ward’s "Map of the Human Heart," Martin Scorsese’s "The Age of Innocence" and James Ivory’s [...]
