"Gangs Of New York" is a surprising movie in many ways. While Martin Scorsese has shown us syncopated violent moments in his movies before, no film of his has been so constantly brutal and vicious throughout – almost like a tapestry of [...]
"The Sand Pebbles" was directed by the legendary Robert Wise, whose long career in film brought us films as varied as "West Side Story", "Audrey Rose", "The Sound Of Music" and my favorite Star Trek film, "Star [...]
In the post-9/11 world, it seems that people have been 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 [...]
As part of their Father's Day line-up MGM Home Entertainment has prepared a high definition version of Guy Hamilton's "Battle Of Britain, " and while I love this film per se and love to own it on Blu-Ray disc, it does make me wonder [...]
Justin Chadwick's "The Other Boleyn Girl" is a historical romance based on the bestselling novel by Philippa Gregory. Curiously, it was also the basis for a TV movie in 2003. Chadwick's first large production from BBC Films and Focus [...]
Generation X is the propagator of nostalgia. After all, Gen X folk are by-products of Reaganomics and the have-it-now, dispose-it-tomorrow, long-for-it-years later syndrome that lures late thirty-somethings into the malls they once prowled, flirted and [...]
After more than 30 years, Franklin J. Schaffner's rousing biopic of one of America's most controversial military leaders remains a landmark film. "Patton" brings to full, colorful life the eccentric career of General George S. Patton, [...]
"Bella" is without doubt one of the least apologetic blendings of heartfelt intentions, cinematic manipulation, and ultra sentimentality that I have seen in some time. That it won the coveted People's Choice Award at the 2006 Toronto Film [...]
Honored with four Academy Awards in 1969, George Roy Hill's "Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid" is still one of the most beloved buddy-movies of a great many film fans. Not only did it practically start the genre, but it still stands out [...]
As a teenager in 1978 I witnessed a TV mini-series that shook me to my foundation. For the first time the atrocities of the Nazi Regime, the horrors of the Jewish genocide were driven home to me in a matter that was tangible. Not the dry dissertation in [...]
