Forgetting the story for a moment, Under the Tuscan Sun is a beautifully photographed film. While Diane Lane does a fine job as the lead character, the real star here is the Italian countryside, with its rich, varied colors, as…
First introduced in 1986, The American Girl doll collection has become a worldwide phenomenon, launching specialized shops across America which features everything a fan of the doll could want. In 1992, the franchise also launched a bi-monthly magazine and 2008…
1986’s The Color of Money isn’t a sequel, exactly, but continues the story of “Fast Eddie” Felson (Paul Newman), began in the Robert Rossen 1961 classic, The Hustler. With acclaimed director Martin Scorsese at the helm, Eddie Felson is such…
Despite a near universal critical drubbing—Pauline Kael referred to it as “a tale of cock”—Cocktail was a commercial success for star Tom Cruise and director Roger Donaldson, raking in $171,504,781 at the box office. Even now, nearly twenty-five years after…
Based on the novel by James Dickey, Hollywood just can’t make movies as brutal and uncompromising as like John Boorman’s Deliverance (1972) anymore. Rough and unflinching in its violence, Deliverance is a movie that reminds us that anyone of us…
So bad it’s good…almost. An adaptation of Jean-Claude Forest’s popular series of adult science fiction comics, Barbarella (subtitled Queen of the Galaxy) isn’t so much a movie, as it is an experience. The opening scene sets the tone: Barbarella, played…
From the start, it’s clear that this is not your typical Spalding Gray film. First, instead of the usual man behind-a-desk scenario, Gray’s Anatomy begins with eight minutes of person-on-the-street interviews, filmed in grainy black and white, talking about their…
When Guy Ritchie signed on to direct 2009’s Sherlock Holmes, he said he sought to “make a very contemporary film as far as the tone and texture”, because it has been “a relatively long time since there’s been a film…
Cited as the inspiration for several science fiction films (Star Wars, Flash Gordon and Avatar, among them), Edgar Rice Burroughs’ “A Princess of Mars” finally made it to the big screen after years of development, as John Carter. Given its…
With one of the most successful pilots in TV history, Hell on Wheels leaves you wanting more with every minute. I was left anticipating what’s next, and it remains that way until the very end. The show features Cullen Bohannon…