Unlike its competitors at Marvel, with the exception of Batman, the Superheroes of the DC Universe hasn’t had much success bringing its characters to the big screen. Warner Bros. was hoping to change all that with Green Lantern, but unfortunately…
Almost as quickly as media began, came stories of its certain end. Never has the drumbeat been so loud as in the past couple of years when it comes to print newspapers, with their ad revenue in tatters because of…
It’s been 35 years since the release of Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, the notorious final film of Italian director Paolo Pasolini. The passage of time has done little to change the movies reputation as one of the…
With Meryl Streep getting ready to hit the big screen as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady later this year, it seems appropriate that the BBC release The Rise and Fall of Margaret Thatcher, a two DVD set containing three…
While it’s probably not the funniest film of the year, Horrible Bosses is a humorous tale about three disgruntled workers plotting to kill their bosses. Best described as 9 to 5 crossed with The Hangover, anyone who’s ever had a…
The question of whether or not The Crow would have been a success had star Brandon Lee not been killed during shooting, will never be answered. While the film is a bit strange, James O’Barr’s comic book of the same…
It’s hard to believe that Weird Al” Yankovic has been doing his thing since 1976! He’s recorded more than 150 parody and original songs, and preformed more than 1,000 live shows. No matter how much time passes, “Weird Al” manages…
Originally released in 2007, the BBC’s Planet Earth set the bar for the Blu-ray format. Almost anyone who wanted to see the best of what high definition could do picked up Earth; people who never gave a second thought to…
The 1960’s was the decade of the epic (Lawrence of Arabia, The Great Escape, Doctor Zhivago). While David Lean was gaining acclaim and winning awards for his big movies, fellow Briton J. Lee Thompson was having a quieter, though no…
Bernard Rose’s (Candyman, Immortal Beloved) Mr. Nice is a biopic of the infamous Welsh hashish smuggler Dennis Howard Marks. Oxford educated, Marks didn’t set out to be a drug kingpin, but he didn’t fall into a life of crime by…