Although it represents one of cult director John Carpenter's most underrated and under-appreciated movies, his homage to Hong Kong cinema, "Big Trouble In Little China" has an incredibly committed fan following, all of which are eagerly [...]
A number of years ago, someone recommended Alan Moore's "Watchmen" to me with the stipulation that is was the best and most mature graphic novel ever. I read it and I did not like it. If "mature" means convoluted and hard to [...]
When the name David Cronenberg is mentioned, it usually conjures up memories of Jeff Goldblum metamorphosing into a giant insect, James Woods making love to a breathing, pulsating television set, or a man's head exploding. These and countless other [...]
Spike Lee's "Inside Man" concerns a bank robbery. A most unusual bank robbery, in fact. The robbery is organized by Dalton Russell (Clive Owen), who addresses the camera directly at the film's opening to give us the Who, What, When, [...]
If there has been one movie of recent memory that I have been looking forward to with quite some excitement, it was "Valkyrie." Finally available in high definition from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, I was very eager to check it out the [...]
Some movies are simply legendary. In the arena of Westerns, Sergio Leone's works are unmatched in their strikingly visual approach, namely, the extensive use of dramatic widescreen shots interleaved with moments of extreme close-ups. Apart from [...]
"Children Of Men" is one of those films that you don't hear a whole lot about, yet when you see them, they are quite impressive, and when people begin to talk about them, everyone goes "Oh yeah, that film was great!" Finally [...]
The 2001 hit "The Fast and the Furious" hearkens back to the auto-centric B-movies of the 1960s and 1970s, bringing the relatively underground culture of speed racing to mainstream attention. As in the "hot rod" movies of decades past, [...]
The notoriety surrounding infamous Hong Kong director John Woo has dies down a little, as the filmmaker has noticeably slowed down his output. While still very active as a producer of movies, he takes the director's seat much more infrequently than [...]
While it had been anticipated with some trepidation initially, Robert Rodriguez proved that he was the right man to put Frank Miller's comic book "Sin City" onto celluloid. Since its release it has converted even the most comic-book-averse [...]
