Just how is it that a young Texas boy, missing for three years, suddenly turns up in Spain? Seemingly reunited with his family, the tale turns out to be odder and more complex than anyone could have imagined. Through interviews…
Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning play by Alfred Uhry, Driving Miss Daisy is a touching film about an unlikely friendship. Set in the waning years of segregation, this is an example of the mutual understanding that managed to exist…
A second prequel to 2008’s Death Race, Death Race 3: Inferno picks up just after Death Race 2 ended. Essentially, the prisons have been taken over by private, for profit corporations. One of the ways the corporations make money is…
The Best Picture Oscar Winner of 1932, Grand Hotel was directed by Edmund Goulding (Dark Victory, The Razor’s Edge) and is based on the novel and play by Vicki Baum and the American stage version by William A. Drake. A…
Based on the fictional British housewife created by Jan Struther in 1937 for a series of newspaper columns, Mrs. Miniver was one of the first war movies to take viewers off the battlefield and into homes of people trying to…
Based on the novel by Chantal Thomas adapted by Benoît Jacquot and Gilles Taurand and directed by Jacquot, Farewell, My Queen (Les Adieux à la Reine), narrates the turmoil at Versailles in the week following the storming of the Bastille…
In August of 1926, the Warner Brothers introduced Vitaphone—an analog sound-on-disc system—with the release of their silent film Don Juan. While there was no dialogue, the movie had been retrofitted with a symphonic musical score and sound effects. While Don…
After several years of mostly crafting other people’s work into his own vision, Tim Burton returned to his own material for Frankenweenie. An expansion of a live-action short Burton made for Disney way back in 1984, the black-and-white and stop-motion…
A made for TV documentary that originally aired on Spike TV, Pete McCormack’s I Am Bruce Lee might just be the definitive documentary about the man widely recognized as the pioneer who elevated martial arts in film to an art…
Based in part, on the best-selling book by political journalists Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, Game Change chronicles the decision to pair 2008 Republican Presidential nominee John McCain with then Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. Originally aired on HBO in March…