"The Rookie" is a film that arrived at theaters in 2002 directed by Texan director John Lee Hancock, who was also responsible for "The Alamo" in 2004. It is based on the true story of Jim Morris and his rise to the Major Leagues [...]
. . . or "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Live Without My Motorcycle." That's right, Spanish director Jorge Grau's 1974 homage-cum-sequel to George Romero's "Night of the Living Dead" works not only as an allegorical [...]
With Kevin Smith's "Dogma" release in 1999 we have what can probably be called his most controversial motion picture. As the title suggests, the film centers around several religious themes, which are put into the twisted context of a View [...]
Mike Newell's "Love in the Time of Cholera" is an adaptation of critically acclaimed novelist Gabriel García Márquez's 1985 novel about a decades' long romantic obsession. The story begins in Cartagena, Colombia in 1879, [...]
Though not exactly know as a studio that produces a lot of animated features, occasionally 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment does have such a film in their repertoire. The original "Ice Age" is such a film, and after having spawned a decent [...]
All right, kids. This ain't your grandpa's "Beowulf." Most everyone is familiar with the epic, Old English poem, if for no other reason than that it was required reading in their high school English class. While the poem has become [...]
"Michael Clayton" was recently nominated for several Academy Awards, one for writing and the other for directing. George Clooney (after winning in 2005 for the equally compelling and excellent "Syriana") was also up against Daniel Day [...]
Since winning Academy Awards for writing "Million Dollar Baby" and Best Picture and Screenplay for 2004's excellent drama "Crash", Paul Haggis has been a very busy man. He also wrote the recent James Bond blockbuster "Casino [...]
Ben Affleck's "Gone Baby Gone" is one of the most unexpected directorial debuts of 2007. Having persevered through an acting career that has had its share of success and, more recently, failure, Affleck has hit back with a vengeance with [...]
Robert Zemeckis was the driving force behind "The Polar Express, " in which he explored new grounds in computer animation. Unlike the Pixar approach in which everything is created from scratch, essentially, by the skills of modelers, texture [...]
