Friday the 13th: Part 2 scares up Blu-ray! Buoyed by the success of Friday the 13th, Paramount wanted a sequel and wanted it fast. Friday the 13th, Part 2 hit theaters in May of 1981, less than a year after…
Two and a Half Men is not a show that I would have believed could last five years. First, being the pessimist I sometimes can be, I thought Charlie Sheen would have bailed out on the project by now; either…
Director Edward Zwick seems to enjoy making films featuring difficult moral issues and plots driven on the ambiguity of authority and on individual conscience as the ultimate arbiter of truth. It was during the success of Thirtysomething, a television series…
With the new Star Trek film currently in theaters, I suppose it makes sense that CBS/Paramount would take the opportunity to release a small compilation of episodes from Star Trek: The Next Generation. The series, created by Gene Rodenberry, ran…
In the last few years, I have become an avid Star Trek fan. Star Trek originally ran for three seasons and eighty episodes, each of which I’ve seen at least twice. It is perhaps unfair to compare my personal Star…
Last time you took the front door and I took the back, this time we’ll do’er the other way around. –John Wayne as Cole Thornton El Dorado was the second to last film of legendary director Howard Hawks. Released in…
Revolutionary Road opens with a young man and a young woman (perhaps in their early to mid-twenties), meeting at a party and charming each other with meaningless small talk. In the world of movies, this means there destined to fall…
Released in 1962, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance was directed by the great John Ford and starred Hollywood legends James Stewart and John Wayne. The screenplay by James Warner Bellah and Willis Goldbeck, was adapted from a short story…
Created by David E. Kelley, Boston Legal was a spin-off of the long-running series The Practice, Boston Legal followed the personal and professional exploits of a group of attorneys working at the law firm of Crane, Poole & Schmidt. A…
What I want is for us to finish dead last. The Cleveland Indians have been in the cellar for decades; when the owner dies suddenly, his scheming, ex-showgirl wife, Rachel Phelps (Margaret Whitton), takes over the day-to-day operations of the…