With Twilight’s Catherine Hardwicke at the helm, one should have a pretty good idea what Red Riding Hood is going to be like: a young girl torn by loyalty to several lovers (one or more may be some sort of…
Original Sin is based on the novel “Waltz Into Darkness” by Cornell Woolrich, the author of the story Hitchcock used as the basis for Rear Window. However, in terms of quality, it would be difficult to find two more dissimilar…
Burbank, Calif., June 17, 2011 — On June 28, Warner Home Video will release all three of Peter Jackson’s visual masterpieces on Blu-ray in a 15-disc stunning collection entitled The Lord of the Rings™ The Motion Picture Trilogy: Extended Edition….
When it debuted in 2008, The Secret Life of the American Teenager raised a few eyebrows for making a pregnant teen the focus of the series. The ABC Family network proved to be very popular with the teen and pre-teen…
Press Release: Burbank, Calif., June 13, 2011 — Citizen Kane, Orson Welles´ tour de force which the American Film Institute (AFI) chose as the #1 film of all time1, celebrates its 70th Anniversary with an all new 1080p hi-definition restoration…
Nate Ford (Timothy Hutton) is a former insurance fraud investigator, who had a talent for retrieving stolen art for his company. When the company refused to pay for experimental treatment that might have saved his son’s life, Nate turned to…
The first Harry Potter effort for director Peter Yates, Order of the Phoenix is probably my least favorite of the films. While the ending creates some excitement, getting there is ponderous to say the least, even after cutting the standard…
Emboldened by his success in 2008’s Taken, Liam Neeson has returned to the action/thriller genre in Unknown, based on the 2003 French novel published in English as Out of My Head, by Didier van Cauwelaert. Neeson plays Dr. Martin Harris,…
I’ve come to think of this sixth film in the Harry Potter franchise as the one where the young wizard truly begins to grow up. When we last saw Harry in The Order of the Phoenix, he was engaged in…
In 1977 director Martin Scorsese was on a roll. Hot off the critical and commercial success of Mean Streets, Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, and Taxi Driver, he was given free rein to do whatever he wished. His pet project…