Originally envisioned by Warner Brothers as a B-movie project, Rebel Without A Cause director Nicholas Ray began shooting the movie in black-and-white film stock. That is, until studio head Jack Warner realized that James Dean was a star in the…
Gerard Butler has carved out a successful career playing the heroic everyman. He continues this trend with Plane (one of the dullest titles in a while), an actioner with a B movie aesthetic that still manages to be a decent…
Flashdance arrived in U.S theaters on April 15, 1983. Critics hated the film, but the public loved it. Just ten-years old at the time, I remember how torn sweatshirts and leg warmers became must-haves. Because the movie was rated R,…
Though Humphrey Bogart died more than sixty years ago, he remains one of Hollywood’s most enduring movie stars. Widely regarded as a cultural icon, The American Film Institute ranked Bogart as the greatest male star in the history of American…
A brutal onslaught for the senses, German director Edward Berger’s adaptation of the author Erich Maria Remarque’s classic World War I novel All Quiet on the Western Front, is realistic and unforgiving. Strictly speaking, this is a straight adaptation of…
Released in 1981, Dragonslayer was a partnership between Walt Disney Pictures and Paramount Pictures. Darker and more mature than Disney’s usual fare, they had Paramount handle distribution in North America, keeping their participation in the film on the downlow. A…
Given the success of Whiplash, La La Land and to a lesser degree, First Man, writer/director Damien Chazelle had earned the right to swing big. Released during the 2022 holiday season, Babylon, a three-hour epic with an all-star cast and…
With John Wick: Chapter 4 hitting screens soon, Lionsgate has released the John Wick Chapter 1-3 Stash Book Collection, a collection of SteelBooks available exclusively at Best Buy. The first three Wick films are housed in a box resembling John’s…
Based on the novel by James M. Cain, Mildred Pierce is the type of bleak, melodramatic film that its star Joan Crawford excelled in–tough as nails–a woman who could take care of herself, but is alluring enough to always have…
For many years, Denzel Washington was known for playing good guys and heroic figures. This all changed with the release of Antoine Fuqua’s Training Day. Washington plays Alonzo Harris, a crooked narcotics cop who long ago stopped caring about the…