If I were to make a list of the worst trailers ever, John Woo’s Face/Off would be on it. The clip turned me off so much, I avoided the film in theaters. It was only after countless recommendations from friends…
Kino Lorber Studio Classics recently released a three-disc Special Edition of Oliver Stone’s 1995 film, Nixon. It contains both the original 191-minute Theatrical Cut (premiering for the first time in HD on a Blu-ray disc) and the extended 212-minute Director’s…
Room is not just a film. but an experience. Both a nightmare and a fairytale, I found myself occasionally laughing while on the edge of crying. An adaptation of Emma Donoghue’s acclaimed novel, and penned by the author herself, Room…
Based on the novel by Rick Moody, Ang Lee’s The Ice Storm is a film about the things we think we know. New Canaan, Connecticut is the picture of affluence and prosperity. On the outside, the Hood and Carver families…
Generally speaking, romantic melodramas aren’t my cup of tea; I don’t read a lot of them and I usually wait for the Blu-ray release before seeing them in movie form. The Notebook was a bit different. Though I never read…
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…
New Line | 1998 | 124 mins. | PG-13 Pleasantville was written and directed by Gary Ross (Seabiscuit). Though this was his directorial debut, Ross wrote Big, the 1988 hit starring Tom Hanks as a kid trapped inside the body…