’Kelly’s Heroes’ is a war movie in much the same way that ’The Dirty Dozen, ’ ’Operation Petticoat,’ or ’Three Kings’ can be considered war movies. While the conflict provides the setting and the main characters are all military men, the [...]
The art of transferring a book to the silver screen is fraught with peril. Too often the results simply don’t live up to expectations. When the book in question is a runaway bestseller, Pulitzer Prize winner, and flat out cultural phenomena then the [...]
’Steel Magnolias’ is the touching and funny story of a group of women in a Louisiana small town. Over a period of time we become part of their lives and share their hopes, dreams and miseries with them, as their stories unfolds in the local beauty [...]
The explosive popularity of the DVD format has seen an influx of foreign titles to the American market. While discussion is usually limited to the rise in the availability of European horror titles, there has also been a surge in the number of releases [...]
When veteran director John Frankenheimer takes a seat in the director’s chair of any movie, expectations are traditionally high. After all, Frankenheimer has created some of the most memorable action thrillers of the past 40 years, and the filmmaker [...]
’Sleepaway Camp’ is an odd little film, which was a late entry into the ’Slasher Cycle’ of the early 80s. The movie plays like a cross between ’Friday the 13th’ and the Bill Murray comedy ’Meatballs’. (It’s also unusual because there is [...]
Certainly everyone is by now familiar with the "sexual favors" trailer that Universal used to bring their film "Erin Brockovich" to people’s attention. The trailer certainly helped get people’s attention, although it may have [...]
Director Ron Shelton seems to have cornered the market on sports movies that double as romantic comedies and classic buddy films. His surprise hit, ’Bull Durham,’ revealed the steamy underside of small-town minor league baseball while ’Tin Cup’ [...]
Hailed by many as one of the best Star Trek movies, if not THE best one, "Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan" contains all the elements that made the series so successful. While most Star Trek feature films, especially the latest ones, appear like [...]
While movies themselves are usually released as a constant flow throughout the years, genres typically move in waves. What is hip today is gone tomorrow and replaced by another "fad" the industry is following. The current wave of horror films [...]
