Originally titled Cutter and Bone, the script by Jeffrey Alan Fiskin found its way to Paul Gurian, a neophyte producer with a couple of short films and a TV movie on his resume. Based on a novel by Newton Thornburg,…
Winter Kills William Richert’s adaptation of Richard Condon’s novel “Winter Kills”–a thinly veiled look at the John F. Kennedy assassination–grounded in dark political satire was plagued with production issues including a mafia hit on one producer, a forty-year prison sentence…
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People is based on the memoir of the same name by British journalist Toby Young. The story chronicles his failed attempted at becoming a successful contributor at Conde Nast Publications’ Vanity Fair magazine. Though…
Directed by the legendary John Huston (The Maltese Falcon, The Misfits) the 1972 boxing picture Fat City isn’t your typical tale of triumph over tragedy, but a grim character study of life’s losers. Based on a novel by Leonard Gardner…
Based on the Young Adult novel by Lois Lowry, a near two decade passion project for actor Jeff Bridges, The Giver is yet another in what has become a bit of a glut in science fiction films set in a…
Most of the time I detest remakes; however, True Grit proves they don’t have to be bad. The Coen Brothers’ interpretation of the 1968 Charles Portis novel is superior in almost every way to the 1969 Henry Hathaway version. While…
Universal City, May 24, 2011 – Bowling, nihilists, a stolen rug and the occasional acid flashback have never been funnier when one of the most popular cult classics in history, The Big Lebowski Limited Edition, debuts on Blu-ray™ August 16,…
Disney / Buena Vista | 2010 | 127 mins. | PG Back in 1982, Tron was a film ahead of its time. However, when it was announced nearly thirty years later that a sequel was on the way, I wondered…
Disney/Buena Vista | 1982 | 96 mins.| PG Released in 1982, Tron was really a movie ahead of its time. In 2011, the idea of artificial intelligence and computer programs interacting with humans in a digital environment seems like a…
Paramount Home Entertainment has announced the western True Grit for Blu-ray release on June 7, in a BD/DVD/Digital Copy combo pack. This new adaptation of the novel by Charles Portis (previously brought to the screen by Henry Hathaway in 1969),…