Created by Terence Winter and executive produced Martin Scorsese (who also directed the pilot episode), Boardwalk Empire ended in 2014 after five successful seasons on HBO, in which the series garnered 18 Emmy Awards. Now available as a 19 disc…
Released in 1939, Jamaica Inn is considered by many to be an inferior work in the filmography of director Alfred Hitchcock. Though apparently not a happy experience for Hitchcock due to interference from star and co-producer Charles Laughton, Jamaica Inn…
Charles Chaplin’s last American film, Limelight is probably his most personal work. Released in 1952, it was a very difficult time in Chaplin’s life both personally, and professionally. There were plenty of people in Hollywood who felt him un-American, and…
Though the events depicted in Ava DuVernay’s Selma occurred fifty years ago, the message resonates even more in light of the recent events in Ferguson, Missouri and Baltimore, Maryland. Selma begins with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (David Oyelowo) receiving…
Julianne Moore has long been considered one of the finest actresses working today. Whether playing a 1970’s pornography actress in Boogie Nights, an unhappy mid-20th century housewife in Far from Heaven, or Sarah Palin in Game Change, she becomes the…
In the interest of full disclosure, I’ll admit that while I attempted to read EL James’ Fifty Shades of Grey, I found the writing style rather dull and sophomoric, and gave up on it before I got to the halfway…
December 12th marks what would have been Frank Sinatra’s 100th birthday. Warner Brothers Home Entertainment is celebrating the occasion with the May 5th release of the Frank Sinatra: Five Film Collection on Blu-ray. Packed with bonus features, including a 32-page…
Based on the Booker Prize-winning novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day is a true high point in the career of producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory that resulted in several memorable literary adaptions over four decades….
The mid 1950’s were an interesting time in America. Television was wholesome, music was wholesome and movies were essentially Technicolor tributes to innocence. While Marlon Brando’s 1953 appearance in the Wild One and James Dean’s Rebel Without A Cause (1954)…
Frederick Frenger, Jr. (Alec Baldwin), who prefers to be called Junior, is a con man, thief and a cheat. Just out of prison, he’s headed to Miami looking for a fresh start (and a whole new crop of victims). Things…