Some twenty-plus years after the TV series a "Miami Vice" movie was definitely the last thing on my mind. Yet series creator Michael Mann never seems to have given up the dream and in 2006 it finally materialized. With a new cast but the [...]
I had no idea this show actually existed until I got the press release from A&E Home Entertainment announcing its DVD release. Not much of a TV viewer I am, I guess. When I read about it, I wanted to give it a quick look, though. It was a guilty [...]
John Singleton blends blaxploitation and his love of the spaghetti western theme to produce an original spin on the typical revenge plotted story with his latest film "Four Brothers". Set in Detroit's mostly blue collar neighborhoods, four [...]
Having grown up watching the original "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" with Gene Wilder in the lead of Willy Wonka, yet not seeing the film for quite a few years, I took some time to revisit this classic tale. Around the same time, Tim [...]
With more false starts than an American-made vehicle, the Man of Steel's prolonged absence from movie screens finally ended during the summer of 2006. After soaring back into the skies with some fairly respectable box office receipts, Warner Bros. [...]
In the post-9/11 world, it seems that people are 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 conservatives [...]
Chronicling the final five years of American socialist/journalist John Reed, "Reds: 25th Anniversary Edition" presents an ambitious look at the professional and personal life of the author behind "Ten Days That Shook the World" [...]
Stanley Kubrick's story of a slave uprising in ancient Rome won four Academy Awards in 1960 and is still a marvelous sweeping epic that remains absolutely timeless. And yet, the film has been treated like an ugly duckling by Universal so far, never [...]
For some, "Scarface" is the quintessential 1980s movie. It may very well be, but not for any great cinematic achievement. Brian De Palma's 1983 gangster epic put a face, namely Al Pacino's, to the undying quest for an elusive American [...]
David Mamet is one of the foremost American playwrights living today. Since the 1970s, his plays have inspired accolades and controversy in equal measures due to their poetic dialogue and often shocking frankness. Director Stuart Gordon's reputation [...]
