In the 15 years since the release of ’This is Spinal Tap’, we’ve seen the ’mockumentary’ genre grow by leaps and bounds. A recent entry into this arena is ’Forgotten Silver’, an offering that comes to us from New Zealand and cult director [...]
’Saving Grace’ falls firmly into the subgenre of British films, which are set in towns full of quirky characters, such as ’The Full Monty’ and ’Billy Elliot’. It opens with the entire town going to the home of Grace (Brenda Blethyn), for the [...]
Even by today’s cynical standards, no one could compete with the star power of John Wayne. He truly was bigger than life. He was "the Duke." ("Repo Man" notwithstanding; those who’ve seen it will get the joke.) He stood out [...]
Chinese horror films are always an interesting blend that is very different from the American horror fare. Horrific and explicit, these films are typically also quite humorous and more importantly laden with terrific action sequences. ’Spooky [...]
Released in 1996, Edward Zwick’s ’Courage Under Fire’ was the first major motion picture to use the events of the 1990-91 Gulf War as a backdrop. While the setting may be contemporary, the issues tackled in the film are universal to all powerful war [...]
There are not too many movies from the silent era of filmmaking that have built a reputation for themselves that lasts until this very day. Only few film have left such an indelible impression on multiple generations that everyone is intimately familiar [...]
Every few years, we get an updated version of the ’crude college movie.’ The latest pretender to the ’Animal House’ throne is ’Road Trip’, featuring the mysteriously popul MTV comic Tom Green. Fortunately, Green is only the narrator of this [...]
Ever wonder what chickens do when you’re not watching? Okay, probably not but thus is the premise of Dreamworks animated feature ’Chicken Run’, a terrifically entertaining film for kids and adults alike. ’Chicken Run’ marks the debut [...]
Recently, we’ve seen a growing number of television shows making their way to DVD. The latest offering is the hit series ’Friends’ from Warner Home Video. Instead of releasing the shows in chronological order starting with Season One, as has been [...]
Some twenty-odd years ago the thought of having one’s conversation surreptitiously recorded by dark agencies had an exciting air of Cold War paranoia about it, but it wasn’t a situation that most people really had to worry about. Fast forward to the [...]
