Pride and Glory doesn’t deliver anything moviegoers haven’t seen countless times before; good cop, bad cop and lots of conflict. My first instinct was to dismiss this film completely. However, I figured since the picture starred Edward Norton and Colin…
The 1970’s was a seminal decade in the history of American film. A new crop of directors including Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, William Friedkin and others ushered in a new era of weaving personal narratives into their stories in…
Apparently, there has been some confusion as to the origins of this film. The director of Mirrors, Alexandre Aja, has claimed the project was not a remake of the 2003 South Korean horror film Into the Mirror, though there are…
I recently had a chance to email Julie Benz some questions. She discussed what interested her in “Saw V,” the film that was recently released on DVD, her thoughts on working with Sylvester Stallone on the latest “Rambo” installment and…
Based on the novel Babylon Babies by Maurice Georges Dantec, Babylon A.D. was directed by Mathieu Kassovitz (La Haine), who worked on an English language adaptation of the film for five years, until it finally hit theaters in August of…
Many, including myself, consider Sidney Poitier one of the finest actors of the 20th century. It seems fitting then, that on January 27, 2008 Warner Brothers release The Sidney Poitier Collection, a four film set that gives Poitier fans a…
You know Valentine’s Day is upon us, as Nights in Rodanthe is the second film based on a Nicholas Sparks novel to hit the market in the last three weeks. First was 2004’s The Notebook, packaged as a limited edition…
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People is based on the memoir of the same name by British journalist Toby Young. The story chronicles his failed attempted at becoming a successful contributor at Conde Nast Publications’ Vanity Fair magazine. Though…
Few directors have made a commercially successful career out of the erotic thriller. Fewer still have got critical raves for their work along the way. English director/screenwriter/producer Adrian Lyne is widely known and respected for films that deal with sexually…
I’m not going to pull any punches here; National Lampoon’s Stoned Age is a stupid movie. It’s a shame really, because there was a time not too long ago when “National Lampoon” meant you could expect 90 minutes of ridiculously…