"The first dead man on Omaha beach must be a sailor", Admiral William Jessup (Melvyn Douglas) says with the unmistakable self-assurance that could only come from a very sick mind. You see, the Admiral has a few loose screws but that has not [...]
Maria Callas is without any doubt the greatest voice in opera history. She achieved legendary status during her lifetime and had a huge following of fans around the world, who all adored her soprano voice like that of an angel. Sadly, Maria Callas at one [...]
Like countless others, I’ve been a fan of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s "The Phantom Of The Opera" musical version for some time but I did have some difficulties wrapping my mind around the thought of perceiving this musical as a movie production [...]
If you watch "The Assassination of Richard Nixon" and expect a polit-thriller this is not the movie for you. Instead it is a character drama about an everyday man who is brought to the breaking point by his surroundings and our culture as a [...]
Let’s just get this out of the way before we start: Annette Bening was robbed at this year’s Oscars. While the individual eventually awarded the statuette gave a terrific performance in their film (so I don’t name names), it just can’t hold a [...]
When former Bonanza-star Michael Landon produced and worked on the TV series and TV movies of "Little House On The Prairie" from 1974 to 1984, everyone thought it was the zenith of his career. However, immediately after he visited the successful [...]
They have been sorely absent from DVD so far – some of the greatest films of Errol Flynn that is – and fortunately for fans of classic movies, Warner Home Video is now celebrating the actor with a Signature collection box set, containing five of his [...]
It took them 8 years but finally, Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment has got it right. After regularly butchering the Hong Kong movies they had in their licensed library with sub-par transfers and no supplements to speak of, finally the studio has [...]
Like most I have been a big fan of Peter Seller’s work. His charming mumbling, bumbling and fumbling character portrayals always cracked me up whether he played Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther series, Hrundi Bakshi in "The Party, " Dr. [...]
"Houston, we have a problem." The line still rings in my ears and makes my hair stand up every time I hear it, as it announced one of the pivotal moments in space program history. 35 years ago, on April 11, the crew of Apollo 13 took seat in [...]
