Like the 1960’s television series that inspired it, The Fugitive offers a distorted view of the world and a sense of impending danger. However, director Andrew Davis has taken the story of a man accused fighting to prove his innocence…
What if jolly Saint Nick didn’t feel so jolly all the time? Better yet, what if Saint Nick could kick butt with the best of them? This is essentially the plot of Tommy Wirkola’s (Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters) Violent…
Directed by George Lucas before Star Wars took his career in a different direction, 1973’s American Graffiti is a cinematic love letter to the late fifties and early sixties, when America’s youth were preoccupied with hot rods, girls and rock…
In a career that has spanned more than fifty years, writer/director James L. Brooks has had success in both television and film. Having created Room 222 in 1969, Brooks teamed up with Allan Burns to create The Mary Tyler Moore…
The youngest network president in television history, IBC’s Francis “Frank” Xavier Cross (Bill Murray) will stop at nothing to “own” Christmas in the Nielsen ratings. His holiday lineup features shows like “The Night the Reindeer Died” (in which a far-from-defenseless…
Based on the same novel as Michael Mann’s 1986 film Manhunter (which starred Brian Cox as Hannibal Lechter) Red Dragon finds Anthony Hopkins (Who won an Oscar for 1991’s Silence of the Lambs) returning to the titular role. Edward Norton…
Stephen King is one of the most successful writers ever, but films based on his books have been lackluster at best. While The Shining and The Shawshank Redemption often appear on lists of the greatest films ever made, others like…
Rosemary’s Baby, Roman Polanski’s satanic nursery-rhyme shocked audiences when it was released in 1968. Based on Ira Levin’s book of the same name, the story concerns a young couple, Rosemary (Mia Farrow) and Guy Woodhouse (John Cassavetes), who move into…
Warner Brothers has brought The Exorcist to 4K to celebrate the films fiftieth birthday… The Exorcist is one of the few movies the genuinely scares me, no matter how many times I watch it. I’m among that group of people…
Released in 1982, Wes Craven’s Swamp Thing was based on the DC Comics series. In an unexplored swamp in the deep South, Dr. Alec Holland (Ray Wise) and his sister Linda (Nanette Brown) have been working on a recombinant DNA…