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, [...]
Is it a sign of the times that the love-struck kids from the 90s' biggest blockbuster grew up to become the disillusioned couple at the center of Sam Mendes' would-be revelation of oppressive 1950s' conformity? It would appear so, as [...]
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 [...]
Among all his performances in his long career, Michael Douglas' remarkable portrayal of Bill Foster in Joel Schumacher's 1992 thrilling drama "Falling Down" is certainly one of the most memorable. Warner Home Video has now prepared a [...]
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, [...]
When I first heard about this project I have to admit that I was not in the least intrigued by it. Nixon is not a president I have a lot of sympathies for and just like I simply couldn't get myself to watch Oliver Stone's film "W" [...]
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 [...]
When Vanilla Ice made the leap from the music scene to the big screen in 1991 with both "Cool as Ice" and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze, " he pretty much nailed the door shut for future white rappers [...]
