A film squarely for adults, Conclave is based on Robert Harris’s 2016 novel of the same name. While many of the films centered on religion have been fodder for the horror and thriller genres, Conclave explores the ancient, secretive process…
Released in 2014, Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar ranks as one of the greatest contemporary science fiction films. In my 2015 release of the Blu-ray, I wrote that seeing it “at home on a television will not have the same effect as…
Based on the real-life effort from the kids of Elmore City, Oklahoma, to overturn a law in their town banning public dancing, Footloose is about more than rowdy high school kids wanting to show off their cool moves. Though driven…
In a career that has spanned more than fifty years, writer/director James L. Brooks has had success in both television and film. Having created Room 222 in 1969, Brooks teamed up with Allan Burns to create The Mary Tyler Moore…
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[amazon_link asins=’B0767FCYDW’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’a2baee8e-e757-11e7-a754-331df426d35a’]Released in 2014, Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar ranks as one of the great contemporary science fiction films. In my 2015 release of the Blu-ray, I wrote that seeing it “at home on a television will not…
Marshall Brickman is perhaps best known for his collaborations with Woody Allen on the screenplays for Sleeper, Annie Hall (which won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar), and Manhattan. However, in the 1980’s he did take a stab at directing his…
In the summer of 1968, ABC was dead last in the ratings, behind CBS and NBC (“They’d be fourth, but there were only three,” jokes one talking head). Looking to offset its inability to provide gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Republican…
Politics has had its share of dynasties—the Adamses, the Kennedy’s, the Bush’s—but none can compare to the Roosevelt’s. Theodore Roosevelt and his fifth cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt served a combined total of nineteen years as President of the United States….
In a career that has spanned nearly fifty years, writer/director James L. Brooks has had success in both television and film. Having created Room 222 in 1969, Brooks teamed up with Allan Burns to create The Mary Tyler Moore Show,…