Since beginning his Hollywood career in the mid 1990’s, Michael Peña has proven to be one of the industry’s most reliable character actors, playing second fiddle to better known stars who don’t always possess his natural acting ability. In the…
The Great American Bash was an annual, summertime PPV event put on by one-time WWE rivals the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) and World Championship Wrestling (WCW), from 1985-2000. These events always featured several top tier matches involving some of wrestling’s…
Now largely relegated to cable, the mini-series was once a mainstay of American television. Beginning in 1976 with the success of Rich Man, Poor Man, and continuing with such classics as Roots and Jesus of Nazareth, mini-series became extremely popular…
The 2009 film Black Dynamite—a parody of several blaxploitation films from the 1970s—was a big enough hit to be developed into a Cartoon Network series on their Adult Swim programming block. Silly and occasionally over the top, Black Dynamite: Season…
The final installment of director Lars von Trier’s ‘Depression Trilogy’—following the sadistic, Antichrist (2009) and the apocalyptic-drama, Melancholia (2011)—the two-volume, four-hour psychosexual odyssey, Nymphomaniac has proven to be his most controversial film to date. While occasionally fascinating, Nymphomaniac is hardly…
Released in 1974, nearly a year before the Vietnam War was officially over, Hearts and Minds is more than just a documentary about the war. A landmark political action, director Peter Davis clearly meant to provoke and outrage. A systematic…
Director Walter Hill’s unflinching tale of men pushed to their breaking point, Southern Comfort begins with the simplest of setups. In the opening prologue, a group of weekend warriors for the Louisiana National Guard are sent out for training in…
Even after more than forty years in public life, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld remains somewhat of an enigma. Errol Morris’ documentary The Unknown Known has the filmmaker hitting Rumsfeld with tough questions. Blending archival footage, charts and an…
The Vanquished (I vinti), the 1953 film directed and co-written by Michelangelo Antonioni, tells three harsh tales of about post-World War II youth, each based in part on true events. In each one, young people rebelling against post-war mores find…
A late career vehicle for Cary Grant, the light service comedy Operation Petticoat isn’t one of the versatile actor’s best pictures, but it did give him a chance to work with Tony Curtis, who had offered up his own very…