Warner Bros. | 1976 | 121 mins. | R When director Sidney Lumet and writer Paddy Chayefsky’s Network was released back in 1976, it was regarded as biting satire. Strangely, given our current obsession with reality television, the thought of…
Paramount | 2010 | 98 mins. | R Similar to The Blair Witch Project phenomena, Paranormal Activity made its way to screens in 2009, after two years of marketing. Having first screened at Screamfest Film Festival in 2007, there was…
20th Century Fox | 1950 | 138 mins. | NR If Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard offers a brilliant glimpse of washed up Hollywood, All About Eve is the best example of a stars struggle to stay at the top of…
20th Century Fox | 1957 | 115 mins. | NR Director Leo McCarey’s An Affair to Remember has an interesting place in the history of film. First told in his 1939 classic Love Affair, in 1957, McCarey remade his own…
New Line | 1998 | 124 mins. | PG-13 Pleasantville was written and directed by Gary Ross (Seabiscuit). Though this was his directorial debut, Ross wrote Big, the 1988 hit starring Tom Hanks as a kid trapped inside the body…
Warner Bros. | 1984 | 229 mins. | R Director Sergio Leone, best known for spaghetti westerns like The Good, The Bad & The Ugly and A Fistful of Dollars, turned down the chance to direct The Godfather to work…
Image | 2010 | 82 mins. | R I’ve been a fan of 50 Cent since his party ready hit, “In da Club” blasted onto the airwaves in 2003. Though he quickly became a multi-platinum rap artist, by 2005, had…
Disney / Buena Vista | 2010 | 123 min | PG Even those who don’t know anything about horse racing are likely to recognize the name Secretariat. Considered the greatest horse to ever circle the track, Secretariat left behind an…
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 1980 | 129 mins. | R Released on Blu-ray for the first time in 2009, Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull returns to high definition for its thirtieth anniversary with some additional special features. As I sit down to write…
Criterion | 1969 | 145 mins. NR Until ten days ago, I’d never seen Jean-Pierre Melville’s Army of Shadows (L’armée des Ombres). Made in 1969, it wasn’t widely seen in France and wasn’t released in the United States until 2006….