After honing his writing skills on small, independent documentaries, and getting experience as an assistant director on major box-office hits such as The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) and Bullitt (1968), Walter Hill became a real force in Hollywood with the…
Zack Snyder has gained a reputation as a fine director on the strength of his adaptations of others stories. Dawn of the Dead was a memorable remake of George Romero’s zombie masterpiece. 300, a mesmerizing tour de force, was a…
Filmed in Hollywood back in November of 2010, ‘Sheryl Crow: Miles from Memphis’ is a two hour concert video featuring the famed singer/songwriter. The show features performances of some of her biggest hits, as well as a few new tracks….
One of the last silents produced in Germany, 1930’s People On Sunday involved five young filmmakers, unknowns at the time, who would later become Hollywood heavyweights. Originated from a reportage by Curt Siodmak (screenwriter, The Wolf Man, I Walked With…
After decades of westerns, it would be nice to see a film about the Old West told from the viewpoints and experiences of the ethnic minority—especially the black population—that helped build it from the ground up. While 1993’s Posse has…
Best known for the raunchy comedy style that made Dumb and Dumber, and There’s Something About Mary box office hits in the 1990’s, Bobby and Peter Farrelly have struggled to recapture the magic that made those films so popular. After…
While 2005’s The Island marked director Michael Bay’s first effort without the assistance of producer Jerry Bruckheimer, you’d be hard pressed to know it. Like many of his past films with Bruckheimer–Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, and Bad Boys II—The Island delivers…
Breaking Bad: The Complete Third Season comes to Blu-ray with all 13 episodes courtesy of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Critically acclaimed from the start, season three saw the series receive seven Emmy Award nominations and two wins. Bryan Cranston took…
With Twilight’s Catherine Hardwicke at the helm, one should have a pretty good idea what Red Riding Hood is going to be like: a young girl torn by loyalty to several lovers (one or more may be some sort of…
Original Sin is based on the novel “Waltz Into Darkness” by Cornell Woolrich, the author of the story Hitchcock used as the basis for Rear Window. However, in terms of quality, it would be difficult to find two more dissimilar…