Oliver Stone is crazy. Maybe. At least it would appear so when you consider his last few films. No matter the subject matter, he increasingly manages to drag along an array of film styles and dizzying editing techniques in combination with his favorite [...]
In the late 70’s, film financier Pierre Spengler and the Salkind Family of producers became internationally known with their big-screen versions of "Superman The Movie", it’s sequels, and after that of course, "Supergirl". In light [...]
No one could ask for a better university than the classic Universal monster movies. All the great themes are there: unrequited love, intolerance, jealousy, sin, pride, obsession, and the beast within. Point to any of the original monster films and a map [...]
Although anime, that form of animation from Japan too often characterized by big eyes, big robots, and big tentacles, has been available on VHS in quantity, it is only gradually making its way onto DVD. For the most part this is not a tragedy. While anime [...]
There was a time once, when our perspective of the future included robots. Real robots, with a lot of mechanics, hydraulics and small electronic brains. Judging from Michael Crichton’s "Runaway," this time hasn’t been too long ago. Today no [...]
At times, reviewing films can be a difficult task due to the fact that everyone can have a different opinion when it comes to the qualities of a particular movie. This is especially true when critiquing comedies. Due to the fact that ones sense of humor [...]
Frank Capra has brought us many memorable comedies that age astonishingly well. Although they all have a whimsical nostalgic charm today, the characters of old, are just as real as the ones today and with the romanticized portrayal of the 40s and 50s, [...]
After recently viewing "The Cider House Rules", I’ve been giving a great deal of thought to movie adaptations of novels. As long as the novel isn’t some sort of way-out science fiction, it’s generally pretty easy to transplant the story [...]
Here’s another intriguing film from up and comers Vanguard Cinema. ’The Height of the Sky’ won the ’Best Feature Film’ award at the Telluride Film Festival and it’s easy to see why. The film is set in rural Arkansas in the summer of 1935. The [...]
A guiltier pleasure not to be had, ’The Brain That Wouldn’t Die’ finds renewed life in Synapse Films’ spiffy DVD of writer/director Joseph Green’s gruesome, sexy 1959 low budget bloodfest. Brilliant surgeon (aren’t they always?) Dr. Bill [...]
