Director Walter Hill’s unflinching tale of men pushed to their breaking point, Southern Comfort begins with the simplest of setups. In the opening prologue, a group of weekend warriors for the Louisiana National Guard are sent out for training in…
Amazingly not a ratings winner during its initial 1959-64 run on CBS, Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone has influenced the science fiction genre for decades, and served as the basis for a motion picture, comic books, pinball games and more….
Even after more than forty years in public life, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld remains somewhat of an enigma. Errol Morris’ documentary The Unknown Known has the filmmaker hitting Rumsfeld with tough questions. Blending archival footage, charts and an…
The Vanquished (I vinti), the 1953 film directed and co-written by Michelangelo Antonioni, tells three harsh tales of about post-World War II youth, each based in part on true events. In each one, young people rebelling against post-war mores find…
A late career vehicle for Cary Grant, the light service comedy Operation Petticoat isn’t one of the versatile actor’s best pictures, but it did give him a chance to work with Tony Curtis, who had offered up his own very…
Created by noted erotic director Zalman King (9 1/2 Weeks, Wild Orchid, and Two Moon Junction) Red Shoe Diaries was specifically made for adult audience and aired on Showtime late night. When the show debuted back in 1992, lavishly lit…
Along with the Blu-ray release of the complete season six, CBS/Paramount has released the critically acclaimed two-part “Chain of Command,” as a standalone. As with other single-disc releases, both parts have been edited together to make one 90-minute movie. Truthfully,…
Duck Dynasty has broken several ratings records on both A&E and cable as a whole. However, the fifth season has seen a significant drop in ratings. This could easily be blamed on family patriarch Phil Robertson’s controversial comments in the…
Initially, Star Trek: The Next Generation was one of those series that just got better as time went on. The characters became much more developed, and the actors were much more comfortable in their roles. The storylines became more focused,…
Over the past two decades, the story of the West Memphis Three has gotten tons of press coverage, and been the been the subject of three separate documentaries. Since the murdered bodies of three young boys were discovered in an…