Siu nin Wong Fei Hung ji: Tit Ma Lau Disney / Buena Vista | 1993 | 86 mins | Rated PG-13 While my last foray into martial arts film was the fairly serious and complex Hero, Iron Monkey is almost…
Special Edition Disney / Buena Vista | 2002 | 99 mins. | Rated PG-13 Awe inspiring. Even those new or indifferent to the martial arts genre have been blown away by Chinese director Zhang Yimou’s Hero, an internationally acclaimed cinematic…
Paramount Pictures | 2003 | 115 mins. | Rated PG-13 Matthew McConaughey got his big break back in 1996 in A Time to Kill, playing a lawyer who defended a black man accused of killing his young daughter’s rapists. Kate…
20th Century Fox | 1970 | 115 mins. | Rated PG Now highly regarded as a raucous comedy punctuated by realistic surgery scenes, it’s important to remember that when MASH was released on January 25, 1970 in New York City,…
Lionsgate Films | 2000 | 101 mins | Rated R As television pitchman Tappy Tibbons (Christopher McDonald) chants with his audience, Sara Goldfarb (Ellen Burstyn) locks herself in the closet while her son Harry (Jared Leto) steals her TV. Behind…
Disney / Buena Vista | 2007 | 90 mins | Rated G Part of the recently launched Disneynature project, the 90-minute Earth is actually a shortened version of the colossal BBC series, Planet Earth. Though severely cut, the editors have…
20th Century Fox | 2008 | 578 mins. | Not Rated Loosely based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet (with a pinch of Macbeth tossed in for good measure), Sons of Anarchy represents another boundary pushing entry on the FX schedule. For those…
Disney / Buena Vista | 2009 | 107 mins | Rated R Don’t be fooled by the trailers; despite evidence to the contrary, Adventureland is not Superbad II. Instead, director Greg Mottola has crafted a humorous, rather sweet, coming-of-age story…
DreamWorks | 2009 | 105 mins | Rated R Once in awhile, along comes a genuinely stupid movie that’s just too funny to hate. You know the kind; dumb premise, little plot but along the way they provide so many…
Sony Pictures | 2009 | 98 mins | Rated R Like much of his writing, Bret Easton Ellis’ 1994 book The Informers, is a collection of loosely connected vignettes about unsupervised, unmotivated wealthy teens. In this case, it’s 1983 Los…