There are few things in high school more pathetic than seeing a student trying desperately to fit in with the popular crowd and failing miserably. That is, unless that student is a 47-year-old ex-junkie with the disposition of rancid milk and a libido on [...]
Having grown up watching the original "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" with Gene Wilder in the lead of Willy Wonka, yet not seeing the film for quite a few years, I took some time to revisit this classic tale. Around the same time, Tim [...]
In the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s, the British improvisational comedy show "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" induced side-splitting laughter in viewers on both sides of the Atlantic. Hosted by Clive Anderson, the series featured regular [...]
For as long as I can remember, I have always employed "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" as a reference point for testing out a new format as well as to showcase all the best that my home theater had to offer. I have done so since the early days of [...]
South African director Richard Stanley has had quite the peculiar career. Having directed only two feature films since 1990, he has managed to stir up a strong cult following among horror aficionados. His "Hardware" (1990) was a modest hit but [...]
With more false starts than an American-made vehicle, the Man of Steel's prolonged absence from movie screens finally ended during the summer of 2006. After soaring back into the skies with some fairly respectable box office receipts, Warner Bros. [...]
In the post-9/11 world, it seems that people are growing increasingly more suspicious of their governments and the media's representations of them. Ideals of freedom are called into question with every political event, and liberals and conservatives [...]
"Clerks II" has been eagerly awaited by Kevin Smith fans and after a successful theatrical run it is now available on DVD from Genius Products. Stuffed with supplements, this 2-disc Special Edition will certainly please fans, though the rest of [...]
Chronicling the final five years of American socialist/journalist John Reed, "Reds: 25th Anniversary Edition" presents an ambitious look at the professional and personal life of the author behind "Ten Days That Shook the World" [...]
A critical and commercial flop when it was first released, John Carpenter's "The Thing" is now considered by many as Carpenter's "magnum opus" and one of the better remakes. Starring Kurt Russell and Keith David, John [...]
