"Messing with the Devil’s gonna get you burned…" When someone says this to you, it’s a safe bet you’re either doing something most people consider wrong or are in fact messing with Lucifer’s and headed for some sore skin. In the [...]
"The Wicker Man" is a film of great reputation, although not too many people seem to have seen it. Then again you may have, but chances are that you only saw a skeleton of the real movie, as the original 98-minute gem has been repeatedly [...]
I had never heard of filmmaker Jean Pierre Melville before viewing Anchor Bay’s new DVD of his 1971 gangster flick "Un Flic." (Translated as "A Cop, " the title for its initial stateside release was "Dirty Money.") One [...]
At times, it seems that entertainment reporting is more popular than the entertainment itself. Today we are swamped with magazines, television shows, and websites reporting exclusively on Hollywood and the entertainment industry. Therefore, it’s hard to [...]
For his first three films, Italian director Dario Argento created a series of films that has come to be known as the "Animal Trilogy", as each film has featured an animal in its title — "The Bird with the Crystal Plumage", [...]
After directing only three films, I don’t know if Sean Penn can qualify as an auteur, but his movies certainly have a signature style. Penn tends to make films featuring realistic characters, which have a fatal flaw and find themselves facing [...]
Replacing their original release of "The Fugitive" from 1997, Warner Home Video is now presenting a Special Edition of Andrew Davis’ gripping action-thriller with a brand new transfer of the film and some exciting bonus materials. Opening with [...]
MGM’s efficient but slight cyber-thriller "Antitrust" opens with enigmatic computer guru and gazillionaire Gary Winston (Tim Robbins) offering his new millennium spin on the famous "greed is good" speech from Oliver Stone’s [...]
While movies are certainly not real, they often show an accurate portrayal of reality. However, there are many times when fictional films totally miss the mark. The happens all the times when movies deal with mental illness. The mentally ill in the movies [...]
The mid-1950s sure was a bad time for Hollywood. The House Un-American Activities Committee seemed hell-bent on purging the entertainment industry of every last independent voice by labeling those who refused to cooperate with their communist witch hunt [...]
