An imaginative mix of live action and CGI, Sam Raimi’s Oz the Great and Powerful is a prequel to The Wizard of Oz. While paying homage to the iconic images and sense of magic seen in the classic, the story…
Based on Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard’s book of the same name, Killing Lincoln recounts one of the darkest events in American history, and details how one gunshot changed the country forever. Originally aired on The National Geographic Channel in…
Created by the screenwriter for the Twilight franchise Melissa Rosenberg, Red Widow, a mid-season replacement, lasted just eight episodes before being unceremoniously cancelled by ABC. Based on the 2010 Dutch series Penoza, Red Widow stars Radha Mitchell, Goran Visnjic, Clifton…
A major movie star during the silent era, Gloria Swanson had made a relatively successful transition to the sound era (even garnering an Oscar nomination for The Trespasser in 1930), though her career never reached the height it had in…
Another in a growing number of films that seek to offer alternate versions of popular fairy tales, Bryan Singer’s Jack the Giant Slayer reworks Jack the Giant Killer. As is often the case with these films, our hero has a…
Over the last several years, characters with some sort of affliction have become television favorites. Perhaps more succinctly: damaged has become the new smart. From the OCD plagued detective Monk (Tony Shalhoub), to the unadulterated psychopath Dexter (Michael C. Hall),…
Widely regarded as one of the funniest movies ever made, The Producers (1968) has had its detractors from the start, seen as offensive by many moviegoers and critics alike when it was first released. “Dismally unfunny satire,” wrote Leslie Halliwell….
Produced and directed by Fielder Cook from a screenplay by Sidney Carroll, adapted from their TV play Big Deal in Laredo (which had originally aired on the DuPont Show of the Week in 1962), A Big Hand for the Little…
All set in the near-future Australia, the three Mad Max films—Mad Max (1979), Mad Max Road Warrior (1982) and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)—created a bleak dystopian world while staging some incredible stunts in an era when stunts were done…
Most long-running movie franchises come to a point where they become little more than self parody, and for the Die Hard franchise, this fifth installment A Good Day to Die Hard, is that moment. Given the thin story, dull characters,…