One of the most talented and reliable screenwriters during Hollywood’s famed Golden Age, today, Dalton Trumbo is likely better known as a member of the Hollywood Ten, a group of ten screenwriters, directors, and producers cited for contempt of Congress…
First made in 1974 as a gritty drama starring James Caan, The Gambler has been transformed dramatic actor. Wahlberg plays Jim Bennett, a college English professor and longtime gambler he’s got the upper hand. When he foolishly bets it all…
It’s been more than a decade since Pixar introduced us to Michael “Mike” Wazowski and James P. “Sulley” Sullivan in Monsters Inc. Thankfully, due to the popularity of home video, and the recent theatrical re-release, it feels like they’ve never…
It’s been nearly a decade since Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson teamed up for the surprise comedy hit Wedding Crashers. Surprisingly, there was no sequel, leaving fans clamoring for another film from the pair. While The Internship isn’t nearly as…
Surprisingly dark and depressing, to call The Hangover Part III a comedy seems disingenuous. After the lively debauchery that made up the bulk of the first two films, it seems director Todd Phillips attempted to do something different with the…
Few directors have enjoyed as much success as Ben Affleck this early in their careers. Few would deny that his previous directorial efforts, Gone Baby Gone and The Town showed that Affleck had a real affinity for guiding a film,…
The first live-action film from director Robert Zemeckis since Castaway twelve years ago, Flight is a movie about addiction that manages to include all of the elements of the genre while finding an innovative and powerful way to tell the…
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, adapted from the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer, centers on nine-year-old Oskar Schell who lost his beloved father in the World Trade Center collapse on 9/11. While some have suggested that using such a young…
A period piece road picture about a trio of ex-cons who wind their way around the state of Mississippi during the Great Depression, the basic premise of O Brother, Where Art Thou? seems ideally suited for the Coens’ oeuvre, combining…
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,…