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With Thank You for Smoking, Juno, and Up in the Air, director Jason Reitman has proven himself adept at making clever films that tackle serious issues with a sharp sense of humor. If his last film, Young Adult, suggested Reitman
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, the second film in Peter Jackson’s prequel to The Lord of the Rings, is beginning to show the strain of the director’s determination to stretch the adventure into three books. While still enjoyable, Smaug
Best known for the Civil War dramas Gettysburg and Gods and Generals, director Ron Maxwell returns to yet again to the Civil War with Copperhead, which, at a mere two hours feels like an intimate, character driven drama when compared
Back in 2011, after Charlie Sheen’s meltdown led to his dismissal from Two and a Half Men, I naively thought he had finally done irreparable damage to his career. Surprisingly, a lot of people seem to enjoy his “tiger blood,”
Initially, as I was writing this review, word filtered out that Ultimate Warrior had passed away. A favorite of mine in high school, I stepped away from the piece for a bit to decide how to proceed. Do I make
Riot in Cell Block 11 grew out of producer Walter Wanger’s personal experience. In 1951, Wanger spent four months in prison for shooting Jennings Lang; an agent he believed was having an affair with his wife, the beautiful actress Joan
For most filmgoers, Rod Steiger’s most memorable role is that of police Chief Bill Gillespie in In the Heat of the Night released in 1967, for which he won an Oscar. Even so, Steiger’s best—and most nuanced—performance came three years
Widely regarded as one of America’s greatest actresses, Meryl Streep has turned in many memorable performances over the years. Choosing her best performance thus far is subjective of course, but her work as Sophie Zawistowski in Sophie’s Choice, has to
Nearly sixty years after his death, Humphrey Bogart remains an international icon. Tough, cool, and sophisticated, many regard him as the epitome of class. In a career that spanned nearly three decades, Bogart appeared in seventy five feature films, many
In the opening minutes of Nurse, director Douglas Aarniokoski promises that the next 70 minutes of the feature will be devoted to an atmosphere of sleaziness so thick and colorfully B-movie, it will be impossible to resist. While Nurse doesn’t