[AMAZONPRODUCTS asin=”B00JLJ0AZ6″]Not just another concert movie, Made in America is an exploration and celebration of achieving the American Dream. Director Ron Howard, not known for his work on documentaries, took his cameras to the 2012 Made in America Festival in…
Culled from a novel by Michael Faber, Under the Skin merges horror and mystery to create a very unusual viewing experience. The story offers virtually nothing in the way of emotions, only observations with a sci-fi bent. Director Jonathan Glazer…
Since beginning his Hollywood career in the mid 1990’s, Michael Peña has proven to be one of the industry’s most reliable character actors, playing second fiddle to better known stars who don’t always possess his natural acting ability. In the…
I was first introduced to The Subject Was Roses sometime in the late 1980’s if I recall correctly one of the cable networks was doing a birthday salute to the film’s star Patricia Neal, and this one was on the…
The Great American Bash was an annual, summertime PPV event put on by one-time WWE rivals the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) and World Championship Wrestling (WCW), from 1985-2000. These events always featured several top tier matches involving some of wrestling’s…
Now largely relegated to cable, the mini-series was once a mainstay of American television. Beginning in 1976 with the success of Rich Man, Poor Man, and continuing with such classics as Roots and Jesus of Nazareth, mini-series became extremely popular…
The 2009 film Black Dynamite—a parody of several blaxploitation films from the 1970s—was a big enough hit to be developed into a Cartoon Network series on their Adult Swim programming block. Silly and occasionally over the top, Black Dynamite: Season…
The final installment of director Lars von Trier’s ‘Depression Trilogy’—following the sadistic, Antichrist (2009) and the apocalyptic-drama, Melancholia (2011)—the two-volume, four-hour psychosexual odyssey, Nymphomaniac has proven to be his most controversial film to date. While occasionally fascinating, Nymphomaniac is hardly…
In a highly unusual move, CBS canceled Unforgettable after the 2011-12 season, only to reverse course, and order a second season of 13 episodes to begin airing in summer 2013. Unforgettable is another entry in a seemingly inexhaustible line of…
Released in 1974, nearly a year before the Vietnam War was officially over, Hearts and Minds is more than just a documentary about the war. A landmark political action, director Peter Davis clearly meant to provoke and outrage. A systematic…