Independently produced by Stanley Kramer (High Noon, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner), Home of the Brave was based on the successful Broadway play by Arthur Laurents. Kramer, famous for making “message” movies throughout his career, made one significant change. In…
Director Emile Ardolino spent the better part of two decades working in television. Most notably at PBS, where his profiles of dancers and choreographers for their Dance in America and Live from Lincoln Center series garnered him a total of…
The story behind the Veronica Mars movie is one of remarkable fan loyalty The television series’ creator Rob Thomas, and star Kristen Bell launched a fundraising campaign to produce the film through Kickstarter, and attained their goal of $2 million…
Fox released Season One of Hill Street Blues in 2005; Season Two came out in 2006, but then nothing. For years, fans wondered if the rest of the series would ever make it to DVD. As they’ve done so many…
In a remote area of South America, an oil rig has been blown up by political dissidents, resulting in a fire that burns fiercely. Several workers lose their lives, and the disaster is costing the American owners a great deal…
Director Lucio Marcaccini’s only film, 1975’s Hallucination Strip stars Bud Cort, but it’s not exactly Harold and Maude. Cort plays university student Massimo Monaldi. A politically minded young man, he attends various protests and often finds himself in trouble. He’s…
With Thank You for Smoking, Juno, and Up in the Air, director Jason Reitman has proven himself adept at making clever films that tackle serious issues with a sharp sense of humor. If his last film, Young Adult, suggested Reitman…
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, the second film in Peter Jackson’s prequel to The Lord of the Rings, is beginning to show the strain of the director’s determination to stretch the adventure into three books. While still enjoyable, Smaug…
Best known for the Civil War dramas Gettysburg and Gods and Generals, director Ron Maxwell returns to yet again to the Civil War with Copperhead, which, at a mere two hours feels like an intimate, character driven drama when compared…
During its eleven year run from 1967-78 on CBS, The Carol Burnett Show racked up an impressive 25 Emmys, eight Golden Globes, and three People’s Choice Awards. Even now, thirty-five years after the series went off the air, and with…