One would think that the originality of “Night at the Museum” is wearing a bit thin after three films, but quite the opposite is actually true. Always dishing out new angles on the premise, the films are not only extremely entertaining but every [...]
Viewers who complain that today’s Hollywood pales by comparison to that of the 1970s would be well served to check out writer-director Dan Gilroy’s “Nightcrawler,” a kind of mash-up of “Taxi Driver” and “Network” that also goes off in its [...]
One can easily disagree with the Academy’s decisions when it comes to honoring movies, and this year’s Academy Awards were no different. I think, however, that by awarding “Birdman” with an award for Best Film they did truly honor a movie that is [...]
In 1972, eleven Israeli athletes competing in the Munich Olympics were taken hostage and murdered by Palestinian terrorists known as Black September. In retaliation, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir engaged five men to track down and assassinate eleven [...]
I recently re-watched the 2-disc Platinum DVD edition of Walt Disney’s “101 Dalmatians, ” and noticing its shortcomings in today’s high definition regaled world, I was eager to take a look at the Blu-Ray version the studio just released. I am [...]
I have to admit that I found Season 3 of “Game of Thrones” somewhat disappointing, as it seriously lacked in focus. With way too may plot lines going on at the same time, the show felt anemic and was meandering aimlessly from character to character, [...]
Still one of the highest rated shows on television, PBS Home Entertainment has just released “Downton Abbey: Season 5” as part of its Masterpiece series. Since there is no way to escape the quirky charme of the show, and since I felt entirely deprived [...]
Allan Dwan started directing movies in 1911 and continued until 1961, racking up somewhere around 400 credits in fifty years. Yet today he’s more or less forgotten, in spite of efforts by disciples like Peter Bogdanovich and film scholar Frederic [...]
One of the finest films by one of America’s greatest directors finally gets the high-definition treatment it deserves on Twilight Time’s exquisite new Blu-ray release of Oliver Stone’s “Heaven & Earth.” A profoundly philosophical and [...]
“As Above, So Below” is an inventive and genuinely frightening horror film that is almost entirely undermined by its adherence to the increasingly tiresome conventions of the “found footage” subgenre. It tells the story of a group of explorers [...]
