Writer/director Noah Baumbach explored divorce from the perspective of a 16-year-old boy in 2005’s The Squid and The Whale. Marriage Story finds him exploring the deep emotions of a marriage ending from an adult perspective. When the movie begins, Nicole…
Loosely based on the Jane Austen novel, Emma, Clueless focuses on Cher Horowitz (Alicia Silverstone) a vapid, spoiled teenager living in Beverly Hills. One of the coolest girls in school, Cher drives a white jeep even though she only has…
Held up for years because of legal battles between current and former Lynyrd Sknyrd members, Street Survivors is more of an Artimus Pyle biopic (no music by Lynyrd Sknyrd is used) than a film about the famed Southern rock band….
The buxom horror hostess Elvira (played by Cassandra Peterson) first appeared on a local Los Angeles station (syndicated to other markets). It wasn’t long before she was appearing on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, guest starring on television shows,…
Released in 1966 and promoted with no gimmicks, Let’s Kill Uncle (also known as Let’s Kill Uncle Before Uncle Kills Us) represents a subdued William Castle. Twelve-year-old Barnaby Harrison (Pat Cardi) has just inherited a small fortune after his father…
Based on the ground-breaking 1968 Broadway musical of the same name, Hair was long considered unfilmable. Under the guidance of noted director Milos Forman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeus) Hair made it to the big screen in 1979….
It’s Samantha Baker’s (Molly Ringwald) 16th birthday. Unfortunately for her, it’s also the day before her older sister’s wedding, causing her entire family to forget about her birthday. To make matters worse, she has a crush on a popular, good…
An epic portrait of athletes’ will to succeed, Kon Ichikawa’s Tokyo Olympiad is a beautiful, if unconventional documentary of the 1964 Summer Olympic games in Tokyo, Japan. Every Olympiad commissions an official film, and most are interchangeable rundowns of who…
Inspired by the success of John Carpenter’s Halloween two years before, Friday the 13th was made on a budget estimated to be $550,000 and went on to gross over $39.7 million at the box office in the United States and…
Jennifer Lopez was just another fledgling actress when she won the title role in Selena, and it made her a superstar. Lopez stars as Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, the Grammy-winning Mexican American singer whose life was cut short when she was assassinated…