“I chose not to choose life. I chose to choose something else,” says the film’s narrator and main character, a twenty-something Edinburgh man named Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor), near the beginning of Trainspotting. From the start, it’s clear that this…
Straw Dogs, one of Sam Peckinpah’s best films, was released in 1971 as American soldiers were fighting in Vietnam and citizens at home were protesting United States involvement in the conflict. Shocking at the time because of its explicit gore,…
As Blu-ray becomes an increasingly popular format, the major studios have really begun to see that the true classics of cinema make their way to high-def. I for one couldn’t be happier. One of Paramount’s latest classics to make a…
A temporary solution while Andy Whitfield, the actor playing Spartacus, underwent cancer treatment, Starz’s Spartacus: Gods of the Arena is a prequel to the events that precipitated the gory season one finale of Spartacus: Blood and Sand. As a result,…
Dead at 29 from tuberculosis French filmmaker Jean Vigo left behind just one feature length film and three shorts. Despite his meager output, Vigo was a major influence on the French New Wave of the late 1950s and early 1960s….
Produced by Tony and Ridley Scott and narrated by Sam Rockwell for the History Channel, Gettysburg examines the events that took place in the small Pennsylvania town of the same name during the first three days of July in 1863….
Full of haunting, imagery, Orpheus is surrealist filmmaker’s Jean Cocteau’s bold attempt to merge film and poetry. Bored by his life of fame and notoriety as a leading Left Bank poet, Orphée (Jean Marais) is ready for new experiences. At…
Financed by Paramount Pictures and then nearly shelved when executives saw its bold ending involving machine guns, If…. brought controversy and criticism to director Lindsay Anderson (This Sporting Life) and made an instant star of pouty young Malcolm McDowell, who…
1984’s Blood Simple was the first film from Joel and Ethan Coen. Featuring the debut of then-unknown actress Frances McDormand, the title comes from a slang term invented by Dashiell Hammett to suggest a murderer’s state of fear and confusion,…
Disney´s Prom reportedly cost $8 million to make and grossed only $10 million in theaters. While it’s not a terrible film, Prom probably had no business appearing at local multiplexes. Then again, you can’t blame Disney for trying. After television…