It is hard to believe but it has been over 30 years since Sylvester Stallone created "Rocky" and celebrated triumphant acclaim and success with his story of an underdog boxer whose willpower leads him all the way to the heavyweight championship [...]
Stuart Gordon's 1985 horror-comedy opus set a boundary that no one has ever quite lived up to since in the genre. Making his film debut with "Re-Animator, " Gordon mixed bits of classic and contemporary horror elements, including a healthy [...]
Sri Lankan cinema has yet to catch on in the Western world, and judging from this release, it probably won't for some time. That is not to say that Linton Semage's "Pickpocket" is a bad film. In fact, there is a lot to be praised here, [...]
There are two types of film fans when it comes to critically-reviled, mountain climber epics that feature impossible midair stunts combined with high altitude helicopter action: those that adore Sylvester Stallone's 'Cliffhanger, ' and [...]
In the musical documentary "I Trust You to Kill Me, " first-time director Manu Boyer chronicles a few weeks in the life of struggling rock singer Rocco DeLuca and his band The Burden as they trudge through a rocky European tour. Film and TV star [...]
Released by Paramount Home Entertainment, Comedy Central's "Roast" series continues with "Roast Of William Shatner." This was the first time I was watching a roast and quite frankly I have to say I'm unimpressed. Here's [...]
"We may come from a fragmented MTV rap video culture, but they do not." Michael Crichton doesn't have a reliable track record when it comes to movies adapted from his best-selling novels. Like John Grisham, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and [...]
Martin Scorsese's genius and talent explodes in this rip-bang, return-to-gangster form of a film that easily deserved the big dog Oscars heaped on its plate at the end of February. I remember my first viewings of 'Raging Bull, ' [...]
Martin Scorsese's genius and talent explodes in this rip-bang, return-to-gangster form of a film that easily deserved the big dog Oscars heaped on its plate at the end of February. I remember my first viewings of 'Raging Bull,' [...]
haven: n 2: a place of safety 3: a place offering favorable opportunities or conditions —Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary Safety is the one thing that everyone desires in Frank E. Flowers' "Haven, " a multi-character [...]
