I’ve always been a sucker for good thrillers and the trailer for "The Recruit" looked like a tasty treat. Starring Al Pacino and one of the currently hottest new actors in Hollywood, Colin Farrell, the movie seemed to have everything you’d [...]
"S1m0ne" is the digital age’s answer to "Sunset Boulevard." Picking up where Billy Wilder left off, writer/director Andrew Niccol examines how technology might play a part in the ego-mashing machinations of modern Hollywood. While he [...]
"Who do you trust when everyone’s a crook?" – Queensryche After Al Pacino was put on the map as an actor in Francis Ford Coppola’s "The Godfather" – yes it was his very first leading part – he followed up the critical success [...]
A quick look at the credits of "Glengarry Glen Ross" tells you immediately that the movie you are about to see must be something very special. I’m not limiting myself to the cast in this case but also include writer David Mamet, who has [...]
As DVD matures and finds more players in more home, the list of "must-have" titles continues to shrink. Just in the past few weeks, standards like "Snow White, " "Citizen Kane," and the first "Star Wars" (not the [...]
At times deadly earnest and incongruously surreal, Norman Jewison’s 1979 film "…And Justice for All" still sucker punches in its audacious indictment of the corruption and abuse rampant within the legal system. In the generation since [...]
Oliver Stone is crazy. Maybe. At least it would appear so when you consider his last few films. No matter the subject matter, he increasingly manages to drag along an array of film styles and dizzying editing techniques in combination with his favorite [...]
Michael Mann’s ’The Insider’ is a powerful drama which explores the struggle of two men fighting a corporate giant. Mann abandons his trademark action sequences and gives the film its own unique style. Russell Crowe plays Dr. Jeffery Wigand, a [...]
