After the use of the atomic bomb during World War II and the subsequent development of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, movies began to reflect American’s growing fear of nuclear annihilation. Largely forgotten despite…
Synonymous with the zombie movie, George A. Romero didn’t invent the genre—Zombie movies have been around since the 1930’s—but he did reinvent it, taking what was once thought to be strictly B-Movie material into the mainstream. Day of the Dead…
At first glance, 1976’s Voyage of the Damned must have struck perspective audiences as yet another disaster flick with an all star cast; the kind Irwin Allen, producer of The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and The Towering Inferno (1974) had made…
Like the 1960’s television series that inspired it, The Fugitive offers a distorted view of the world and a sense of impending danger. However, director Andrew Davis has taken the story of a man accused fighting to prove his innocence…
When it comes to Sons of Anarchy, you never know what’s going to happen next. The violence and bloodshed is at an all time high during the series fifth season, but not at the expense at the riveting drama that…
In The Big City, director Satyajit Ray, takes a restrained, yet powerful look at the changing values of 1950’s India. The long held belief that “A woman’s place is in the home,” is shattered as slow-burning resentment develops a financially…
Expecting a sequel to any Hitchcock film, especially one like Psycho (1960) to measure up to the original is just plain silly. Watching Psycho II, released in 1983, it’s best to put the original out of your mind. If you…
A.A. Milne’s fanciful books about his son’s stuffed animal’s come-to-life were purchased by the Walt Disney Company in 1961, and the first animated short was released in 1966. Additional shorts followed in 1968 (winning an Academy Award) and 1974 (earning…
Now in his early seventies, Studio Ghibli master animator Hayao Miyazaki has chosen to ease his way out of the director’s chair in favor of his oldest son Gorō. Gorō co-wrote and directed the 2006 effort Tales from Earthsea, and…
The Scooby series’ latest direct-to-video original movie, Stage Fright finds the Mystery Incorporated gang—Fred (voiced by Frank Welker), Daphne (Grey Delisle), Velma Dinkley (Mindy Cohn), Shaggy (Matthew Lillard) and of course, Scooby-Doo (Welker, again) traveling to an old opera house…