Fifty shades of Humphrey Bogart. Actually, I’m sure there are more than fifty, but they’re only effective if the movie he’s in makes him worth watching, not if it just seems that he’s going through the motions, as it is with Battle Circus, which is…
Compared to Christmas, Halloween doesn’t boast a wealth of TV specials with different takes on the holiday. It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown would seem to be enough, because how much more can you make out of the day beyond what kids already know so…
Without having gone to any other buffet on the Las Vegas Strip yet, the best is the Carnival World Buffet at the Rio, which is, ironically, off the Strip, but still as equally considered as all the others because if you want a little break…
The mark of a great documentary is that no matter how many books you’ve read on a given subject (three about Air Force One) or other documentaries you’ve seen (also three, but two were about the 707 and one was about the 747, produced by…
By 2005, two years into my tenure at Film Threat, I had reviewed many independent films, and not the ones you see in theaters. They were without distributors, the ones made in small towns with broke, but passionate casts and crews, some movies that tried…
Knowing of the filmmaking grind from movie history books, memoirs, and seeing various productions at work while living in the Santa Clarita Valley just north of Los Angeles for nine years, I rarely envy filmmakers and actors the experiences they have and the places they…
The thing to understand about Mill Creek Entertainment’s The Decade You Were Born DVDs is that they’re made with what’s available, what they own for cheap, what they can get from the public domain for free. That’s mostly not so bad. If you’re a student…
In this tag team review, Rory will give you his thoughts on the film, while Rebecca handles the audio and video aspects of the Blu-ray, as well as the special features. In 1995, I was an 11-year-old aviation enthusiast, stemming from my parents taking me…
It was dark outside when my family and I left the Walt Disney Concert Hall after the awards ceremony in a cavernous room there for the Stock Market Game, which my father, a business education teacher, teaches in his classroom. But it was a Los…
The first opera I ever saw was Nixon in China, part of the Metropolitan Opera’s 2010-11 season, which was broadcast via satellite by NCM Fathom to Edwards Valencia 12 in Valencia, California, one theater of many receiving the broadcast at the same time, where my…