"A Christmas Story" has become a regular staple not only in Warner's Holiday release lists, but also in our family. It has become almost a tradition to watch the movie in the pre-holiday season and although I must have seen it a million [...]
Get the bus, Gus, make a new plan, Stan, you don't need to be coy Roy, just listen to me… At one point or another in our lives, we've more than likely recited this classic scat from Paul Simon's funk rock classic "50 Ways to [...]
Peter Weir's film about a young man who's life is highly publicized and dissected before the eyes of a huge TV audience had been the box-office sensation of 1998 and gave rise to what we now call "Reality Television." Little did we [...]
After his incredible resurrection of the comic book superhero with "Batman Begins, " director Christopher Nolan continues the story of the caped crusader in "The Dark Knight, " making sure Batman will forever take his place in the top [...]
Few people will deny that Dr. Seuss is one of the great American children's authors of the 20th century. His books are justifiably celebrated for their wonderfully unique language, eccentric characters, and intelligent social commentary disguised as [...]
Just in time for the theatrical release of its remake, "The Day The Earth Stood Still" arrives on Blu-Ray disc. It is the 1951 sci-fi movie by director Robert Wise which was a very strong social commentary of its timed, and although it may be a [...]
"Old School" was one of Will Ferrell's early movies after leaving Saturday Night and back then already, he was shoehorning himself into the kind of excessive character that we've seen since over and over again. When the film first [...]
One thing that can historically be said about rock 'n roll: the United States and the UK are practically co-dependent of one another to keep their music scenes alive. The British Invasion of the 1960's is the most commonly referred-to cultural [...]
When it hit theaters a few years ago, "Fearless" was supposed to be Jet Li's last period martial arts film, much to the dismay of his countless fans around the globe. Well, fortunately for us, it turned out to be not entirely true, as the [...]
Whether you live there or you've merely visited once or twice, it's hard not to get sucked into the pulse of New York City. I've gone up to the Big Apple nine times, a few for pleasure, others to cover concerts in Times Square and I highly [...]
