Based on the novel by James Dickey, Hollywood just can’t make movies as brutal and uncompromising as like John Boorman’s Deliverance (1972) anymore. Rough and unflinching in its violence, Deliverance is a movie that reminds us that anyone of us…
So bad it’s good…almost. An adaptation of Jean-Claude Forest’s popular series of adult science fiction comics, Barbarella (subtitled Queen of the Galaxy) isn’t so much a movie, as it is an experience. The opening scene sets the tone: Barbarella, played…
From the start, it’s clear that this is not your typical Spalding Gray film. First, instead of the usual man behind-a-desk scenario, Gray’s Anatomy begins with eight minutes of person-on-the-street interviews, filmed in grainy black and white, talking about their…
When Guy Ritchie signed on to direct 2009’s Sherlock Holmes, he said he sought to “make a very contemporary film as far as the tone and texture”, because it has been “a relatively long time since there’s been a film…
Cited as the inspiration for several science fiction films (Star Wars, Flash Gordon and Avatar, among them), Edgar Rice Burroughs’ “A Princess of Mars” finally made it to the big screen after years of development, as John Carter. Given its…
Released in 1971, director Hal Ashby’s Harold and Maude has a decidedly late ‘60s feel. This is a film about life, love, disillusionment and death, replete with a hopeful Cat Stevens soundtrack. If you were to look up “off beat…
David O. Selznick’s first independent production, 1936’s Little Lord Fauntleroy continued the producer’s penchant for bring “classics” to the screen. Adapted by Hugh Walpole from the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, the film is a remake of two earlier versions,…
Having gained national exposure and an Emmy Award for his work on Saturday Night Live, Bill Murray made his feature film debut in Ivan Reitman’s Meatballs. Surrounded by a cast of actors that really have little more than bit parts,…
Brought to the small screen with the help of Executive Producer Steven Spielberg, and the director of Paranormal Activity Oren Peli, ABC had good reason to they had their newest hit with The River. Unfortunately, what looked like a promising premise…
The Lethal Weapon series is one of the most successful franchises in film history. Debuting in March of 1987, the first film would spawn three sequels and a host of imitators. Lethal Weapon certainly didn’t invent the buddy cop genre,…