Made on a modest budget of about $5,000,000, My Big Fat Greek Wedding was one of the biggest hits of 2002, grossing more than $350,000,000 worldwide. While some critics complained that the story was formulaic, clichéd, politically incorrect and unoriginal….
It’s little wonder that Clark Gable and Jean Harlow made six films together in a span of just six years. Gable’s man’s man’s persona and her bawdy personality made for great chemistry. In Red Dust, their scenes have a palpable…
Writer/director Amy Heckerling made a name for herself in the ‘80s and ‘90s with Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Look Who’s Talking and Clueless. After her last two features, 2000’s Loser and 2007’s I Could Never Be Your Woman were…
With the 2012 presidential election just days away, many of us have grown tired of political debates, hyperbole and ads. But leave it to Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis and the director behind Austin Powers to make politics intriguing again. Director…
Growing up, I occasionally read the Heathcliff comic strip, but I also considered him a second rate Garfield. So while I had a stuffed Garfield on my bed and Garfield pencils in my pencil box, Heathcliff was largely ignored. Whatever…
Arthur Rankin, Jr. and Jules Bass, better known to millions as simply Rankin/Bass, gained fame for co-producing and directing a wide array of stop motion animation features. Some of their most popular were their holiday offerings such as Rudolph the…
Given the success of 1975’s Jaws, Shark movies will continue to get made no matter how good they are in hopes of achieving box office gold. Bait 3D, directed by Kimble Rendall and based on a screenplay by John Kim…
American Joshua Marston made his directorial debut with Maria Full of Grace, concerned the drug trade between South America and New York. In his second feature, Marston delves into a little understood culture in Albania that lives according to an…
Co-written and directed by Alex Kurtzman (co-writer of the recent Star Trek reboot and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen), People Like Us failed to impress at the box-office, but perhaps the film will catch on with home viewers looking for…
In the months since the trailer first arrived in theaters, I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve had Magic Mike described to me as the “Channing Tatum male stripper movie.” While Channing Tatum does play a male stripper,…