Disney / Buena Vista | 2009 | 76 mins | Rated G In some form or another, boy bands have been around almost since the birth of rock ‘n roll. Cute and attractive, the largely female demographic of the music…
Warner Bros. | 1970 | 224 mins | Rated R Is it just me, or does 1969 seem like a long time ago? The idea of peace and free love seems like such a foreign concept to me, a person…
Say what you will but Saturday Night Fever is probably one of the most culturally significant films of the last fifty years. Released in the United States on December 16, 1977 Saturday Night Fever not only revolutionized the movie and…
Grease is the word, baby. One of the most celebrated movie musicals ever, Grease has managed to find an audience across all gender race and age boundaries and maintain its tremendous popularity some thirty years after the film premiered in…
The second series of Skins, a BAFTA-winning teen drama created by father and son television writers Bryan Elsley and Jamie Brittain, is notably darker and more dramatic in tone than its predecessor. The series is an unflinching attempt to capture…
Gigi has finally arrived on Blu-ray, looking better than I’ve ever seen it before. Released in 1958, the film reunited director Vincent Minnelli with producer Arthur Freed, Alan Jay Lerner and actress Leslie Caron. After the success of An American…
After having such tremendous success in 1937, with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs–which marked the first time animation was used to produce an entire feature length film–some were skeptical when Walt Disney decided to follow it up with yet…
Written and directed by Darnell Martin (I Like it Like That), Cadillac Records chronicles the life of influential Chicago based record company executive Leonard Chess and the singers who recorded for Chess Records. Exploring the musical era from the early…
I enjoyed 2005’s Madagascar, so I was more than happy to sit down and take a look at the second installment. Part two picks up where the first movie left off, with the same group of animals, along with a…
Flashdance arrived in U.S theaters on April 15, 1983. Critics hated the film but the public loved it. At Just ten years-old, I can remember how torn sweatshirts and leg warmers became must-haves. Because the movie was rated R, I…