Inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale “The Snow Queen,” Frozen is the story of two sisters, princesses, named Elsa (voiced by Idina Menzel) and Anna (Kristen Bell) from the seaside kingdom of Arendelle. Elsa, the elder, was cursed with…
Director Kimberly Peirce made a major breakthrough with her 1999 film, Boys Don’t Cry which chronicled the real-life story of Brandon Teena, a trans-gendered teen who preferred to identify as a male and was brutally murdered when it was discovered…
Cited as the inspiration for several science fiction films (Star Wars, Flash Gordon and Avatar, among them), Edgar Rice Burroughs’ “A Princess of Mars” finally made it to the big screen after years of development, as John Carter. Given its…
Goodness knows Hollywood has produced plenty of films claiming to be based on true events—The Exorcist and The Amityville Horror fall under that heading. The Rite is the latest member of the group. However, the filmmakers want us to take…
Writer/director Noah Baumbach seems to enjoy exploring the dark underbelly of family dynamics and relationships. Baumbach wrote the 2005 film The Squid and the Whale, in which the father (Jeff Daniels) of an intellectual, if slightly eccentric Brooklyn family claims…