“What we’ve got here, is failure to communicate.” One of the great movie lines from one of Paul Newman’s most iconic roles. Set in the backwoods of Florida after the war hero (It’s not clear if it’s World War II…
Originally envisioned by Warner Brothers as a B-movie project, Rebel Without A Cause director Nicholas Ray began shooting the movie in black-and-white film stock. That is, until studio head Jack Warner realized that James Dean was a star in the…
Gerard Butler has carved out a successful career playing the heroic everyman. He continues this trend with Plane (one of the dullest titles in a while), an actioner with a B movie aesthetic that still manages to be a decent…
Flashdance arrived in U.S theaters on April 15, 1983. Critics hated the film, but the public loved it. Just ten-years old at the time, I remember how torn sweatshirts and leg warmers became must-haves. Because the movie was rated R,…
Though Humphrey Bogart died more than sixty years ago, he remains one of Hollywood’s most enduring movie stars. Widely regarded as a cultural icon, The American Film Institute ranked Bogart as the greatest male star in the history of American…
A brutal onslaught for the senses, German director Edward Berger’s adaptation of the author Erich Maria Remarque’s classic World War I novel All Quiet on the Western Front, is realistic and unforgiving. Strictly speaking, this is a straight adaptation of…
Released in 1981, Dragonslayer was a partnership between Walt Disney Pictures and Paramount Pictures. Darker and more mature than Disney’s usual fare, they had Paramount handle distribution in North America, keeping their participation in the film on the downlow. A…
Given the success of Whiplash, La La Land and to a lesser degree, First Man, writer/director Damien Chazelle had earned the right to swing big. Released during the 2022 holiday season, Babylon, a three-hour epic with an all-star cast and…
Powered by strong performances from all the actors involved, Women Talking follows the women of an isolated and ultraconservative religious community who must decide their futures, after a shattering revelation rocks their society. For years, the men have occasionally drugged…
As Fill’er Up with Super opens, hapless car salesman Klouk (Bernard Crombey) is seen combating every query of a would-be buyer who wants to lower the purchase price of a 1968 vintage Porsche. After a disastrous test drive, Klouk’s boss…