With films like Passenger 57, Executive Decision, Con Air and Air Force One scoring at the box office, the second half of the 1990’s was the age of the Action in an Airplane subgenre. All of them featured all featured…
Based on the acclaimed short story by Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain was adapted into a beautifully articulate screenplay by Diana Ossana and Larry McMurtry. While considered one of the best scripts around, the story of a love affair between to…
I would never claim that Risky Business ranks up there with classics such as Casablanca, Bonnie and Clyde or even Rocky. However, the film that is largely credited with making Tom Cruise a star deserves a place in film history,…
Based on Jack Finney’s novel, Invasion of the Body Snatchers and directed by future Clint Eastwood favorite Don Siegel (Riot in Cell Block 11), Invasion of the Body Snatchers unfolds in a normal, average American small town. Yes, Santa Mira…
Released in 1992, I remember Bad Lieutenant causing a sensation. Directed by Abel Ferrera, I remember feeling like it bordered on porn, with copious full-frontal male nudity, rampant drug use, masturbation, and a vile act of rape. Watching it again…
John Waters’ tribute to teenage delinquency of the 1950’s and Elvis Presley movies of the era, 1990’s Cry Baby remains his most successful film to date. With an outstanding lead performance from Johnny Depp and an excellent supporting cast, Cry…
One of the best noir films ever made, Chinatown is considered by many to be the finest film of the 1970’s. Though filming began without a finished script, screenwriter Robert Towne ended up crafting a truly original story; one that…
A bonafide movie star for over thirty years of his working life, Gary Cooper is considered by many film historians to one of the more iconic movie stars of all time. Fans loved him because they felt they could relate…
Paramount has released a UHD SteelBook packaging alternative for the 1994 Brandon Lee film The Crow, directed by Alex Proyas and starring the late Brandon Lee. The disc and digital content is identical to that found in the simultaneously released…
A beautiful but spoiled young woman named Jessica (Blanca Marsillach) is deeply in love with her saxophonist beau Johnny (Stefano Madia) and the couple regularly have sex in the strangest of places and the strangest of ways, even using his…