Here’s the deal with this one: Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas Special runs only twenty-five minutes (twenty-two if you don’t count the credits). It was created as a TV special (it first aired less than a week before this disc…
When The Hangover hit theaters back in the summer of ’09, most figured it would be an also-ran, considering it was going up against surefire blockbusters like X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the Star Trek reboot, and Angels and Demons among others….
As needless a sequel as one could envision, Poltergeist II: The Other Side has a few genuine scares, and plenty of slime and gore, but for each memorable moment there is a scene of laughable absurdity. Poltergeist II is a…
Despite the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, and the UN Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, institutionalized indenture existed in the southern United States throughout the civil rights movement in the 1960s. The black “help” were not simply housekeepers, but nannies to…
Although a fictional story, an adaptation of the 2006 novel Elle s’appelait Sarah by Tatiana De Rosnay, Sarah’s Key is still firmly based on a real-life incident. World War II was a time of many atrocities. In 1942, over 13,000…
Michael Mann’s Manhunter was such a box office disappointment—just $8.6 million—when it was released in 1986 that when author Thomas Harris wrote a sequel two years later, producer Dino DeLaurentis agreed to loan Orion Pictures the rights to adapt it…
Based on a character created by Robert E. Howard in 1932, Conan the Barbarian reached its peak of popularity in the early 1980’s with several books, comic books, and the success of the Arnold Schwarzenegger film of the same name….
The Smurfs debuted on North American television as a Saturday morning cartoon in 1981. Created by Peyo, the Smurfs, a population of adorable blue creatures who were named according to their occupations or personalities, with Papa Smurf their wise leader….
Filmed at London’s state-of-the-art O2 Arena in April of this year, Usher: OMG Tour captures the R&B star on tour in support of his seventh album, Raymond V. Raymond, which achieved platinum status in the United States and earned him…
The Big Country may not be William Wyler’s best work, but it’s certainly illustrative of his style. The rather simple story is dwarfed by the breathtaking scenery, with its wide vistas and rugged canyon. In fact, its vastness is a…