Madonna makes the move to the director’s chair for her first major motion picture, W.E.. Well acted and undeniably stylish, the script—written by Madonna and Alek Keshishian—suffers from a lack of simplicity. Seemingly Madonna wanted to craft a classic love…
*Rated NC-17 There’s plenty of evidence to suggest that pain is a big part of addiction. Addicts going through withdrawal kick, scream, contort, and vomit. Shame, the latest effort from director Steve McQueen (Hunger) offers an up-close and often…
Honestly, when I first heard Warner Archive was releasing Shazzan: The Complete Series, I initially had it confused with Shazam! a 1970’s live action series based on the DC Comics’ superhero Captain Marvel. I couldn’t have been more wrong. Created…
It’s not unusual to see films about Americans abroad experiencing the difficulties of adjusting to a new culture. But in director Mike Ott’s award-winning indie drama, Littlerock, two foreign tourists find themselves struggling to adjust to small-town America. Japanese youths…
Based on the children’s novel and stage adaptation of the same name, War Horse tells the story of the special relationship between a young man and his horse. While the story of this relationship does have moments of charm, it’s…
Throughout his impressive career, filmmaker Werner Herzog hasn’t been afraid to explore difficult subject matter. From early works such as Aguirre: Wrath of God to later efforts like the documentary Grizzly Man, the director has explored nature vs. man, and…
An elderly woman enters a small corner shop in London for milk. She is shuffled about and ignored by other shoppers and the clerk. What those in the shop fail to realize is that the old woman with glasses, bundled…
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, adapted from the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer, centers on nine-year-old Oskar Schell who lost his beloved father in the World Trade Center collapse on 9/11. While some have suggested that using such a young…
One of the best noir films ever made, Chinatown is considered by many to be the finest film of the 1970’s. Though filming began without a finished script, screenwriter Robert Towne ended up crafting a truly original story; one that…
Avoiding the romantic entanglements of James Cameron’s Titanic (1997), Roy Ward Baker’s 1958 British-made docudrama A Night to Remember focuses on the riveting event that took place in the North Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912. Screenwriter Eric Ambler based…