Disney’s 14th animated film, Peter Pan was one of Walt Disney’s favorite stories. Walt originally slated it to be the studios second film after Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, but rights issues and World War II, forced production to…
Though largely forgotten today, baggy eyed Fred Allen was once one of the nation’s most popular comedians with a long running radio show and a long running mock feud with fellow comedian Jack Benny. A master ad libber, Allen’s absurdist,…
The brainchild of co-creators Mark A. Altman and Steve Kriozere, Femme Fatales is one of the few shows on Cinemax After Dark that can actually be considered watchable. Altman and Kriozere both have written quite extensively for television, including episodes…
The third remake of the 1932 drama What Price Hollywood?, this adaptation of A Star Is Born sets the scene in the world of 1970’s rock. Originally envisioned by screenwriters John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion as a hard look…
Now one of the most widely watched television series in the world, Downton Abbey has become a phenomenon. A kind of Upstairs/Downstairs for the 21st century, writer/creator Julian Fellows paints a vivid picture of the aristocratic Crawley family in early…
Stephen King is one of the most successful writers ever, but films based on his books have been lackluster at best. While The Shining and The Shawshank Redemption often appear on lists of the greatest films ever made, others like…
A thin but undeniably enchanting film, Indiscreet marked the second pairing of Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman. In an age of romantic stars dressed in tailored tuxedos and elegant gowns, no onscreen couple looked as good as they did. Adapted…
The first live-action film from director Robert Zemeckis since Castaway twelve years ago, Flight is a movie about addiction that manages to include all of the elements of the genre while finding an innovative and powerful way to tell the…
Rarely available in its full form since 1970 Ely Landau’s King: A Filmed Record is one of the most important documents of the American civil rights movement. Told without traditional narration, this 181-minute documentary follows the last thirteen years of…
An odd hybrid of documentary and historical reenactment, The Men Who Built America is an eight-hour mini-series that covers the period between the end of the Civil War and America’s entry into World War I. In that relatively brief time,…