Dr. Dolittle: Million Dollar Mutts is the fifth film in the updated franchise. Directed by Alex Zamm (Inspector Gadget 2), this direct-to-video film can only be described as innocuous. With talki8ng animals and the slimmest of what might be considered…
Friday the 13th: Part 2 scares up Blu-ray! Buoyed by the success of Friday the 13th, Paramount wanted a sequel and wanted it fast. Friday the 13th, Part 2 hit theaters in May of 1981, less than a year after…
Director Edward Zwick seems to enjoy making films featuring difficult moral issues and plots driven on the ambiguity of authority and on individual conscience as the ultimate arbiter of truth. It was during the success of Thirtysomething, a television series…
Last time you took the front door and I took the back, this time we’ll do’er the other way around. –John Wayne as Cole Thornton El Dorado was the second to last film of legendary director Howard Hawks. Released in…
Revolutionary Road opens with a young man and a young woman (perhaps in their early to mid-twenties), meeting at a party and charming each other with meaningless small talk. In the world of movies, this means there destined to fall…
Released in 1962, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance was directed by the great John Ford and starred Hollywood legends James Stewart and John Wayne. The screenplay by James Warner Bellah and Willis Goldbeck, was adapted from a short story…
The son of Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas, Michael Douglas has been an actor for over forty years. An Oscar winner both as a producer (1975’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) and an actor (1987’s Wall Street), he proven himself…
I’ve been ripping on movies with the “Happy Madison Production” label a lot lately but with Paul Blart: Mall Cop, I actually found one I enjoyed. Think of Paul Blart: Mall Cop this way, it’s what Die Hard would have…
For whatever reason, Hollywood studios inundated the movie going public with a series of body switching movies at the end of the ’80’s. Like Father Like Son got things going in October 1987, then March through June 1988, Vice Versa,…
“I was born under unusual circumstances.” And so begins The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards: a man, like all…