Despite the celebratory mood that surrounds Rome, beautiful housewife Antoinetta (Sophia Loren) feels just as lonely as ever. She has a husband and six children, but feels emotionally spent: husband Emanuele (John Vernon) is overbearing and disrespectful; while her children…
In the summer of 1968, ABC was dead last in the ratings, behind CBS and NBC (“They’d be fourth, but there were only three,” jokes one talking head). Looking to offset its inability to provide gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Republican…
Peter Fonda’s third and final (as of this writing), directorial effort, Wanda Nevada is set in 1950’s Arizona against the backdrop of the Korean War. Fonda stars as Beaudray Demerille, a drifter and grifter, who wins 13-year-old Wanda Nevada (Brooke…
From creator Kevin Williamson (The Vampire Diaries) comes The Following: The Third and Final Season which saw the series starring Kevin Bacon come to a dramatic end, while leaving things open for a possible return at some point. As the…
Despite being formulaic from start to finish, Southpaw manages to pack an emotional punch largely due to the performance of Jake Gyllenhaal, who really sunk his teeth into the material and explored the psyche of his character. Gyllenhaal clearly spent…
Adapted from the novel by John Green (“The Fault in Our Stars”), Paper Towns is likely best described as a coming-of-age road movie. Margo (Cara Delevingne), is the cool girl in school. Her neighbor and fellow high school senior Quentin…
First released on Blu-ray in 2011, most agreed that My Fair Lady neither looked nor sounded as good as it could have. Many (including myself), hoped that a remaster would come out in celebration of the films 50th anniversary. It…
An early disaster film directed by John Ford (Stagecoach, The Grapes of Wrath), The Hurricane offers up special effects that almost eighty years after its initial release are still impressive. The highlight is a fifteen minute hurricane sequence (hence the…
Directed by the legendary John Huston (The Maltese Falcon, The Misfits) the 1972 boxing picture Fat City isn’t your typical tale of triumph over tragedy, but a grim character study of life’s losers. Based on a novel by Leonard Gardner…
Spanning six hours and forty minutes, Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th chronicles the film series that made Jason Voorhees, a machete-wielding, hockey mask wearing killer, a pop culture phenomenon. Adapted from Peter M. Bracke’s book…