“He wanted to die with me, and I dreamed of being lost forever in his arms.” Narrated from the point of view of fifteen-year-old Holly Sargis (Sissy Spacek) Terrence Malick’s Badlands can be seen as a kind of modern day…
Produced by George Lucas and directed by Ron Howard, Willow has managed to connect pretty well with audiences over the years, but received mixed reviews from critics when it hit theaters back in 1988. Although the film earned a rather…
Overdone, gaudy, and deliciously entertaining, Samson and Delilah is the kind of epic Cecil B. DeMille (The Ten Commandments) thrived on. Nobody did sword and sandal epics better than he did, and in terms of entertainment value, Samson and Delilah…
Created by legendary animators William Hanna and Joseph Barbera in 1940, Tom (a cat) and Jerry (a mouse) have had one of the longest and most beloved rivalries. Tom chases Jerry, and Jerry outsmarts Tom; sometimes it’s the other way…
Filming Shakespeare isn’t particularly easy, and keeping it interesting for a majority of the viewing audience is even more difficult. This 1970 version, highlighted by an all star cast, faithfully retells Shakespeare’s account of events surrounding the assassination of Caesar…
After the dull Chéri and the uneven Tamara Drewe, the generally reliable Stephen Frears appears to be in something of a slump. Unfortunately, his frivolous, superficial adaptation of Lay the Favorite, Beth Raymer’s memoir about her path from stripper to…
While well suited for all ages, there’s little doubt that Wreck-It Ralph is a valentine to parents who remember afternoons spent in the video game arcades of the past. As their parents are smiling about the Q*bert jokes and other…
Relationships and the struggle for power within their framework is a consistent theme throughout Luis Buñuel’s films. A rather sadomasochistic director, Tristana, released in 1970, is Buñuel’s most explicit study of the subject. Made in the later stages of the…
Shot on a shoestring budget by a group of industrial filmmakers who had never produced a feature film, The Blob, released in 1959, became the most successful monster film of the decade. Filmed in rural Pennsylvania, the director Irvin S….
Located in Memphis, the Manassas High School football team had become the punch line to cruel jokes after years of losing seasons. In 110 years, Manassas football hadn’t appeared in a single playoff game. When Bill Courtney, a volunteer coach…