Released in 1998, The Last Days of Disco was the last film in writer/director Wilt Stillman’s trilogy of occasionally dark social comedies about the so-called “Urban Haute Bourgeoisie” (UHB), a group of white, young, East coast, Ivy-league league elites. Set…
Based on the Parker Brothers board game of the same name, Clue is a murder/ mystery set in 1954, against a backdrop of McCarthyism. On a dark and stormy night, five people with ties to the government have been invited…
For some, particularly his younger admirers, Bob Marley has become the face of marijuana. However, more than thirty years after his death, Marley is much more than that: the face of reggae, the spirit of Jamaica, an international symbol of…
A remake of a 2008 French feature of the same name, LOL (“Laughing Out Loud”) is a baffling and somewhat annoying experience. The original film’s writer/director Lisa Azuelos has returned to helm her story about the tug-of-war between teens and…
Adapted from a short story entitled “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale” by famed science fiction writer Philip K. Dick (who also provided the source material for such celebrated films as Blade Runner and Minority Report) Total Recall as…
I have said this before, but it bears repeating: nearly from the start, Warner Brothers embraced Blu-ray technology, turning out some of the best high-definition titles available on the market. The studio has been particularly good with its vast library…
Paramount Pictures and CBS Home Entertainment deserve major kudos for showing true respect to a beloved television franchise. First, they did a major restoration on all three seasons of Star Trek: The Original Series. By cleaning up the film, and…
Boss, starring Kelsey Grammer as Chicago mayor Tom Kane, is an obvious departure for the actor after two decades of playing the kooky, snobbish Frasier Crane that earned the actor five Emmys over the course of the character’s life on…
Marking the return of writer director Kang Je Gyu seven years after the massive success of 2004’s Taegukgi: The Brotherhood of War, My Way is an epic tale of war, inspired by true events. Set during World War II, My…
After watching Casa de mi Padre, I have to applaud a guy like Will Ferrell for having the courage to trying something so different. Casa de mi Padre requires him to speak entirely in Spanish, something he does surprisingly well,…