Director Sergio Leone, best known for spaghetti westerns like The Good, The Bad & The Ugly and A Fistful of Dollars, turned down the chance to direct The Godfather to work on his own mobster epic, Once Upon a Time…
Voted one of the greatest female screen legends in American cinema history by the American Film Institute, Audrey Hepburn remains a fashion icon and fan favorite, more than twenty years after her death in 1992. Warner Bros. Audrey Hepburn Collection…
Little House on the Prairie had experienced a little bit of a sophomore slump, slipping out of the top thirty in the Nielsen ratings during the second season. However, audiences rediscovered the series during the third season and the series…
In 1988, Spain’s Pedro Almodóvar scored an international hit with the satirical Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. A romantic farce, it played out a bit like a 1960’s Doris Day film on speed. So, you can imagine…
Politics has had its share of dynasties—the Adamses, the Kennedy’s, the Bush’s—but none can compare to the Roosevelt’s. Theodore Roosevelt and his fifth cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt served a combined total of nineteen years as President of the United States….
After directing several episodes of Mad Men, John Slattery makes his film directing debut with God’s Pocket, one of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s final roles. Adapted by Slattery and Alex Metcalf from Pete Dexter’s first novel, the film takes its name…
As another football season kicks off this week, it seems appropriate that Warner Brothers should release a 15th anniversary edition of Oliver Stone’s Any Given Sunday. Violent and in-your-face, this is a look at professional football as only Oliver Stone…
The non stop action engulfs any real plot that might have existed. While some of the martial arts is exciting, the constant use of CGI is a major disappointment.
[AMAZONPRODUCTS asin=”B00KE3B6NI”]Considered by many the greatest musical theatre choreographer ever, Bob Fosse won an unprecedented eight Tony Awards for choreography and one for direction. He also was a successful filmmaker, receiving four Academy Award nominations winning for his direction of…
[AMAZONPRODUCTS asin=”B00JHH1YQG”]An imaginative updating of the Phantom of the Opera (with a liberal dose of Faust thrown in) set in the business of Rock ‘n roll, Brian De Palma’s Phantom of the Paradise didn’t make much of an impact at…