Many are familiar with the story of Mildred Pierce as told in Michael Curtiz’s classic 1945 film starring Joan Crawford in her Oscar winning role. Though that film was based on the 1941 James M. Cain novel, many changes were…
Through the years, several films have been made about epidemics. Much of the time, the filmmakers simply create chaos and run with it. However, Contagion, the latest effort from director Steven Soderbergh does something clever: simply allow the events to…
Transferring a play for the stage to television is a risky proposition, made all the more difficult when the play is a one man affair. HBO’s Thurgood, written by George Stevens Jr., benefits from a stellar performance by Laurence Fishburne….
It’s the holiday season again, which means lots of kids have a little more time off than usual. If you’re looking for a film the whole family can watch—one devoid of nudity, sexual situations, violence or adult language—Dolphin Tale fits…
In the interest of full disclosure, I should state that for some odd reason, I’ve never seen the original Fright Night released in 1985. While some may believe that makes me unqualified to judge the recent Craig Gillespie remake. I…
After milking the franchise for all its worth in the in the early 70s and then failing miserably with Tim Burton’s 2001 reboot, Fox wisely to their time before trying to resuscitate Planet of the Apes. Though it’s taken an…
Meet Me in St. Louis, director Vincent Minnelli’s tribute to, as daughter Liza says in the introduction, “the bonds that tie us to each other”, is powerful because the director treats the material with as much seriousness and respect as…
“We set out to change the world,” laments Curt Wild (Ewan McGregor) to New York Herald journalist Arthur Stuart (Christian Bale), “and ended up changing only ourselves.” “What’s wrong with that?” the reporter responds quizzically. “Nothing…if you don’t look at…
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….