On the way back from a few days in Las Vegas this past January, my family and I stopped at the Fashion Outlets of Las Vegas, on the Nevada/California border in Primm. My sister wanted to see what the Williams-Sonoma outlet store had for cheap,…
So far this year, the Year of the Acorn, which is 60% of the way to becoming Acorn Media’s best year ever, establishing it as a rip-roaring competitor to BBC Home Video, there has been the Criterion Collection-level I Claudius: 35th Anniversary Edition, a delicious,…
Two years ago, Acorn Media released on DVD Backstairs at the White House, a star-studded portrayal of life at the White House through Lillian Rogers Park (Leslie Uggams), a real-life maid at the White House, who wrote a book about her decades of experiences upon…
Back when TV Guide had rougher pages, more pages, and was a smaller rectangle, it had a movie section in the back with listings for all the movies showing on HBO, Showtime, and other pay channels. Each synopsis was a brief sentence, or barely that….
A play turned into a movie isn’t only about quotable lines such as Jerry Seymour (Reginald Gardiner) upon seeing an intimidatingly large egg: “That would discourage me enormously if I were a hen.” Nor is it entirely about the locations established in a play that…
Rouben Mamoulian is the director who helped create the greatest swordfight in movie history, in The Mark of Zorro (1940), between Tyrone Power as Don Diego Vega and Basil Rathbone as Captain Esteban Pasquale. So right away, I trust his attempt to make a comedy,…
Gene Kelly plays Captain Jeff Eliot, who, while on leave, returns to Munich in 1947 while on leave to seek out the Lehrt family, who hid him in their cellar after he escaped from a prison camp with a few men, after having presumably been…
What makes old Hollywood an ever-fascinating study are the thousands upon thousands of names still to be discovered and studied, such as directors of photography that may not have been as widely-known as those who were held in high regard within the studio system, directors…
10th grade, Flanagan High School, Pembroke Pines, Florida, computer class first thing in the morning. An easy elective, but nothing to do in the first few minutes of class while attendance was taken and announcements came over the PA, so I always had my family’s…
The title alone, Genetic Chile, sounds unnatural. What happened to the seeds as they naturally appear? Weren’t they good enough for crops and harvesting and selling the final product on the markets? Europe agrees, saying that if any food has been genetically modified in any…