With Disney’s recent release of the two-volume, four-movie Spike Lee Joint Collection, three additional films from the prolific, occasionally controversial, director Spike Lee. Vol. 1 features the well written and performed, character study 25th Hour (2002) and the gripping He…
The Ringer is a comedy about a man who pretends to be mentally disabled in order to enter the Special Olympics. Executive Produced by the Farrelly Brothers, purveyors of bad taste, the guys who gave us the disturbing, yet hilarious…
With the 2012 presidential election just days away, many of us have grown tired of political debates, hyperbole and ads. But leave it to Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis and the director behind Austin Powers to make politics intriguing again. Director…
Besides inspiring a desire to watch The Hunt for Red October again, which was met right after watching this, The Sinking of the Laconia also inspires disbelief: The Nazis? Humanitarians? Really? It’s true. Apparently, the farther they are from the…
After milking the franchise for all its worth in the in the early 70s and then failing miserably with Tim Burton’s 2001 reboot, Fox wisely to their time before trying to resuscitate Planet of the Apes. Though it’s taken an…
Michael Mann’s Manhunter was such a box office disappointment—just $8.6 million—when it was released in 1986 that when author Thomas Harris wrote a sequel two years later, producer Dino DeLaurentis agreed to loan Orion Pictures the rights to adapt it…