Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder arrives on Blu-ray, the fourth of a planned quartet of direct-to-home-video releases centered on Matt Groening’s (The Simpsons: The Movie) FOX animated television program, Futurama. Featuring a similar animation style seen on The Simpsons,…
Primal Fear is probably best known as the film that launched the career of the then unknown Edward Norton. Since Primal Fear’s release in 1996, Norton has gone on to a variety of eye opening projects and award winning roles….
Written and directed by Darnell Martin (I Like it Like That), Cadillac Records chronicles the life of influential Chicago based record company executive Leonard Chess and the singers who recorded for Chess Records. Exploring the musical era from the early…
History has shown that film sequels can be a risky proposition; for every Godfather II, there’s a Grease 2. While The French Connection II certainly isn’t the failure that was Grease 2, it has been well documented that neither Gene…
British writer Alan Moore (From Hell, V for Vendetta), British cartoonist Dave Gibbons, and British writer and artist John Higgins combined talents in the mid 1980s to create a series of twelve DC Comics depicting the adventures of a group…
Based on the memoir of the same name by Mariane Pearl, A Mighty Heart is the tragic story of American journalist Daniel Pearl. A reporter for The Wall Street Journal, Pearl was abducted by Pakastani militants while investigating the possible…
As a voracious reader, if a book is made into a film, chances are I’ve read it. Strangely, before seeing The Kite Runner, I had not read the best selling novel by Khaled Hosseini. I don’t quite know why, whether…
Born Harlean Carpenter,the dentist’s daughter eloped at age 16 with a young businessman and wound up in Los Angeles where she found work as an extra and bit player (examples: Moran of the Marines (1928) Liberty (1929) and somewhat more…
In this direct-to-video animated release of Wonder Woman, the plot is based on George Perez’ reboot of the character. Specifically, the “Gods and Mortals” arc that started the character’s second volume back in 1987. The film presumes that Wonder Woman…
I’ve always thought of Benicio del Toro as a bit of a sad sack looking actor. I sort of dismissed him as a disheveled rebel wannabe who needed to get some sleep already. Recently, after re-watching his brilliant turn as…