For centuries, literary figures including Leo Tolstoy, Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain Jack London and countless others have written about the importance of nature and the importance of living off the land. In turn, many people have taken these written…
101 Dalmatians is loosely based on the 1956 children’s book The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith. In Smith’s book there are actually four main dalmatians, their “pets” are already married, Roger is a “financial wizard” who has been…
Beowulf is the oldest surviving poem in the English language. The epic work was written sometime between the 8th and 11th centuries. In the poem, Beowulf battles three rivals: Grendel who is attacking the Danish mead hall known as Heorot…
Beverly Hills, CA — The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has launched a branded Oscars® channel on YouTube™ –www.YouTube.com/Oscars – featuring Academy Awards® show highlights and exclusive video interviews with members from each of the Academy’s branches. Participants…
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…
Films that center on greed are hardly new. Hollywood has long been fascinated by man’s thirst for money and power. Often in these films, the spotlight shines on someone with one last shot at redemption. Sometimes the struggle is played…
Watching a remake of the 2002 German film Mostly Martha, No Reservations is like getting up at midnight and raiding the fridge – it feels good while you’re doing it, but you wouldn’t dream of telling your friends about it…
Recently, as part of Turner Classic Movies 31 Days of Oscar, I watched Hitchcock’s Rear Window(1954). The film about a wheelchair bound photographer who spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed…
I just finished reading Vanity Fair’s February 2008 cover story on Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and got much more intrigued about seeing the film. I am a big fan of the previous Indiana Jones movies…
Writer/director Jeffrey Blitz first gained public notice with his 2002 documentary Spellbound, a fascinating look at contestants at the Scripps-Howard National spelling bee. For his follow-up, Blitz has gone the fiction route, with Rocket Science, a story about a boy…