Judy Garland’s last film role in I Could Go On Singing could easily be mistaken as fictionalized account of her own life. She stars as Jenny Bowman, a legendary singer seemingly bent on self-destruction. In London on a concert tour,…
[yasr_multiset setid=0] Based on characters created by Chris Roberson and Michael Allred for DC Entertainment’s Vertigo imprint and developed for television by Rob Thomas (Veronica Mars), and Diane Ruggiero-Wright iZombie stars Rose McIver as Seattle medical student Olivia Moore. Her…
[yasr_multiset setid=0] Batman V. Superman (referred to from hereon as BvS) isn’t the great film many had hoped it would be, but it’s also not a terrible one. Directed by Zack Snyder, details the initial violent encounters between the Dark…
More than seventy years after the end of World War II, footage of the Nazi concentration camps remains hard to watch. Some of the footage was taken by the German soldiers, as a means to document their planned, methodical genocide….
Released in 1976, Two-Minute Warning tries to be a thriller, but falls back on the predictable characteristics of the popular but fading disaster genre of the era. Despite a cast that includes Charlton Heston, John Cassavetes, Martin Balsam, Beau Bridges,…
By the time Frank Sinatra closed in on his fiftieth birthday in 1965, he needed little introduction. He sold millions of records, made several hit movies and even won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role as Private Angelo…
Produced by Jennings Lang and written by the acclaimed team of Richard Levinson and William Link, Rollercoaster rumbled into movie theaters in the summer of 1977 with Sensurround. One of only four films to ever feature the then revolutionary technology—the…
Closing in on their 45th anniversary, Kate (Charlotte Rampling) and Geoff (Tom Courtenay) are busily making preparations to mark what promises to be happy occasion. However, just days before the party, their lives take an unexpected turn. A letter from…
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan was inspired by an episode of the original Star Trek series, “Space Seed,” which aired during the first season. At the end of that episode, Captain Kirk (William Shatner) sent Khan Noonien Singh…
Originally aired on ABC for eight consecutive nights from January 23 to January 30, 1977, Roots was watched by an estimated 130 and 140 million viewers, more than half the U.S. population at the time. When you consider that this…