It was the worst of times, particularly for high school football player Jack Dundee (Robin Williams), who dropped a title-winning pass against Bakersfield. That was twelve years earlier but the citizens of small-town Taft, California won’t let him forget about…
Based on the worst oil spill in U.S. history, Deepwater Horizon stars Mark Wahlberg as Mike Williams an electronics technician employed by Transocean, hired to dig a well in the Gulf of Mexico that will be pumped for oil by…
Leave it to Quentin Tarantino to make a nearly three-hour film that takes place mostly in one room, yet still manages to be great. While the writer/director still gives in to some of the self-indulgent tendencies his fans have come…
While John Carpenter’s place in cinema history is secure—Halloween alone would have made him an important figure in the horror genre—there’s no denying that his star has dimmed quite a bit since the 1980’s. This is partly due to the…
Disney’s 24th animated film, The Fox and the Hound began production during a time of transition at the studio. Although the two surviving members of Disney’s legendary “Nine Old Men” began work on the project in 1977, they soon stepped…
A twist on the reliable storyline of the snob who learns how the other half lives; the character is stuck up, arrogant and spoiled. Eventually, something happens that brings them down to reality. By the end of the film, the…
The 24th film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series is loosely based on the 1967 novel by Daniel P. Mannix and marks the turning point where animator Don Bluth left Disney to form his own production studio. The direct-to-video…
Disney / Buena Vista | 130 mins.| 1993 | Rated R Though Clint Eastwood’s 1992 film Unforgiven was lauded with Oscars—and rightfully so—the 1993 film, Tombstone also stands as one of the finest westerns of the decade. Yes, we’ve seen…
Warner Bros. | 2006 | 98 mins | Rated PG-13 I admit, I’m a fan of 1972’s The Poseidon Adventure. Granted, like most of producer Irwin Allen’s films (The Towering Inferno), the story is only so-so, but the star power…
Shout Factory | 1979 | 170 mins. | Not Rated Airing on ABC just two years after his untimely death, Elvis was the first film to examine the life of the legendary entertainer. Directed by John Carpenter (Halloween, Big Trouble…