As needless a sequel as one could envision, Poltergeist II: The Other Side has a few genuine scares, and plenty of slime and gore, but for each memorable moment there is a scene of laughable absurdity. Poltergeist II is a…
Frosty’s Winter Wonderland picks up where 1969’s Frosty the Snowman left off. Things begin with Frosty keeping his promise to return from the North Pole. Naturally, the children of Winterwonderland are thrilled to see him. Unfortunately, all is not well…
Given the release of a Smurfs live action/CGI film earlier this year, it should come as no surprise that the renewed interest in the group of small blue fictional creatures has lead to the release of various compilation DVD’s of…
Despite the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, and the UN Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, institutionalized indenture existed in the southern United States throughout the civil rights movement in the 1960s. The black “help” were not simply housekeepers, but nannies to…
Although a fictional story, an adaptation of the 2006 novel Elle s’appelait Sarah by Tatiana De Rosnay, Sarah’s Key is still firmly based on a real-life incident. World War II was a time of many atrocities. In 1942, over 13,000…
Michael Mann’s Manhunter was such a box office disappointment—just $8.6 million—when it was released in 1986 that when author Thomas Harris wrote a sequel two years later, producer Dino DeLaurentis agreed to loan Orion Pictures the rights to adapt it…
Based on a character created by Robert E. Howard in 1932, Conan the Barbarian reached its peak of popularity in the early 1980’s with several books, comic books, and the success of the Arnold Schwarzenegger film of the same name….
The Smurfs debuted on North American television as a Saturday morning cartoon in 1981. Created by Peyo, the Smurfs, a population of adorable blue creatures who were named according to their occupations or personalities, with Papa Smurf their wise leader….
Created by Belgian illustrator Georges Prosper Remi, under the pen name Hergé, The Adventures of Tintin first appeared in a children’s supplement to a Belgian newspaper in 1929. The series is one of the most popular European comics of the…
Filmed at London’s state-of-the-art O2 Arena in April of this year, Usher: OMG Tour captures the R&B star on tour in support of his seventh album, Raymond V. Raymond, which achieved platinum status in the United States and earned him…