After visiting the horror genre in the early stages of his career, and then going into space, science fiction and even kaiju, for the first time, director Roland Emmerich has ventured into the period pieces in 2000, creating the sweeping historic [...]
An amazing feat and a remarkable success, HBO's TV series "Rome" was clearly one of the television highlights of recent years. After the first season blew everyone away, the studio went about to product the second season, continuing the [...]
Norman Jewison is the director who brought us "Moonstruck" and "Other People's Money". This film, originally released in 2000, earned Denzel Washington an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe for Best Actor for his [...]
When Ludwig Van Beethoven died on March 29, 1827, over 20, 000 people were present at his funeral in Währing paying tribute to this singular musical genius – but he has not always been so popular. Ever since his passing however, his work has [...]
From Antoine Fuqua ("Training Day", "Tears Of The Sun", "King Arthur") we have a film based on the Stephen Hunter novel "Point Of Impact". There are three other novels that feature the same character, Bob Lee [...]
From the opening moments of "Hustle And Flow" we realize that this film speaks in the language of the streets, sometimes brutal, sometimes crude but with a truth that lies underneath. It is undeniably gritty, honest and to the point. Stories [...]
"In Good Company" is not exactly the film you'd expect to see in Universal's current HD-DVD push as it is neither part of their "half-time classic" catalog, such as "Dragonheart, " "Smokey And The Bandit", [...]
To most viewers – myself included – Joseph Gordon-Levitt immediately conjures up memories of teenage alien Tommy from "3rd Rock From The Sun." Seeing him star as the lead in this thriller that has universally received critical acclaim [...]
In 1991 I was in love with a movie called "Slacker". It was excellent, and still is, and I consider it a classic in some ways, at the very least it made me want to visit Austin, Texas. I still haven't visited Austin, and I hate college [...]
"…you'll be a Man, my son!" This is the final statement of Rudyard Kipling's 1895 poem, "If—, " from which Lindsay Anderson's 1968 film derives its name. The poem lays out a series of conditions by which the [...]
