Jodie Foster has had a career any actor would envy. Beginning her acting career at age five with guest appearances on numerous television shows such as Mayberry R.F.D., The Courtship of Eddie’s Father and Gunsmoke. By the early seventies, Foster…
Sandwiched between the incredible success of Rosemary’s Baby, the Sharon Tate trauma soaked Macbeth, and the classic Chinatown, is Roman Polanski’s largely forgotten film, What? Filmed on location using the gorgeous Italian villa of co-producer Carlo Ponti, the film can…
Based on the novel by Naomi Hintze and directed by Lamont Johnson, the 1972 horror-thriller You’ll Like My Mother was a modest commercial success when it hit theaters, but gained a cult following after it was rerun countless times on…
In 1971, Dean Martin was at the height of his fame. His variety show on NBC had been a hit for since 1965, and he had become one of the highest paid performers on television. Fans loved his cool, smirking,…
Marshall Brickman is perhaps best known for his collaborations with Woody Allen on the screenplays for Sleeper, Annie Hall (which won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar), and Manhattan. However, in the 1980’s he did take a stab at directing his…
Based on a 1962 play by Edward Albee, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is far less controversial now than it was when it first hit theater screens back in 1966. Even so, the uninhibited dialogue spewed forth by stars Elizabeth…
DC Entertainment’s recent release of the direct-to-Blu-ray Justice League Vs. Teen Titans offers up something for their younger fans. Directed by Sam Liu (Batman: Year One, All-Star Superman) from a script by Bryan Q. Miller (The Flash, Arrow) and Alan…
Co-writer/director Steve James’ (Hoop Dreams) Prefontaine tells the story of Steve Prefontaine, considered by many America’s greatest long distance runner of all time. Holding the American record in seven different distance track events, Prefontaine was favored to win gold at…
Time flies. I was thirteen when Top Gun came blazing to the big screen in 1986. I absolutely loved the film and saw it three or four times during its original theatrical run. Tom Cruise was buff, the planes were…
Shot over a two-year period beginning in 1972, Les Blank’s A Poem is a Naked Person, a documentary on musician Leon Russell, has had an interesting history. Creative differences led to a falling out between Blank and Russell, which led…