Based on Mary Norton’s novel The Borrowers, The Secret World of Arrietty is the perfect story for Studio Ghibli to tackle, with its meeting of two worlds—fantasy and reality. The directorial debut of Hiromasa Yonebayashi, it’s hard not to find…
While Summer Interlude was Ingmar Bergman’s ninth film, it’s the first one that would explore many of the themes and motifs he would become so well known for—love, loss, and the influence of adolescence on adulthood. The story, told largely…
Steve Martin is long established as one of the funniest guys around, but Bringing Down the House won’t be part of his career highlight reel. While the film did well at the box office, bringing in $164,729,679 worldwide, the inane…
Part love story, part science fiction, director David Mackenzie’s Perfect Sense is a tale of love, loss and fear. As people around the world are experiencing the loss of sensory perception, a pair of lovers appreciates each other as best…
More psychological than emotional, Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy is a well crafted debate between a man and a woman that’s both fascinating and irritating. Graced with two solid performances by Juliette Binoche and William Shimmel, Tuscany as a backdrop, Kiarostami…
In a career that spanned five decades and roughly 142 films, John Wayne became one of the biggest stars of the silver screen. Released in 1953, Hondo is probably Wayne’s most beloved film not directed by John Ford or Howard…
Having run for nine seasons, The Dean Martin Show was one of the most popular shows on television during its 1965-1974 run. Broadcast during a time of great political upheaval, as war raged in Vietnam, Dean Martin’s relaxed, laid back…
In an attempt to get her floundering film career back on track, Katherine Heigl took a shot at playing beloved character Stephanie Plum, the heroine of author Janet Evanovich’s long-running series of mysteries. On paper, One for the Money probably…
As one of the most pivotal events in American and World history, there is no shortage of documentaries and films based on World War II. In 2007, Ken Burns and Lynn Novick debuted The War on PBS, a six-part 15-hour…
In 1973, Ganja and Hess from black American playwright, novelist, actor and film director Bill Gunn was chosen as one of ten best American films of the decade at the Cannes Film Festival. However, when the film opened later that…