One of the best-known literary pieces of American horror is the Washington Irving tale The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Everybody knows the story of Ichabod Crane and his fateful encounter with the legend
Charlie Chaplin paved the way. Clint Eastwood and Robert Redford made a successful transition. So did Mel Gibson, Kevin Costner and most recently, George Clooney and Ethan Hawke. Successful actors are
It's good to see the Hollywood musical finally rising from the dead, where the genre lay moribund for close to thirty years until the advent of "Moulin Rouge" in 2001. It's ironic, though, that one of
This is a mood movie. Not the movie's mood. Your mood while you're watching it. If you've got the itch for a syrupy, sentimental, blatantly manipulative film experience, then "Curly Sue" is just your
In Italian writer Carlo Collodi's 1882 fairy tale, Pinocchio is a puppet, a wooden marionette in the form of a child. In Roberto Benigni's 2002 remake of the tale in which Benigni stars as the puppet,
In the documentary film "A Decade Under the Influence," Robert Altman remarks, "I'm not interested in stories. " Presumably, he meant he is more interested in characters and their relationships than i
"West Side Story" won everything in sight when it was released in 1961, including Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director (Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins), Best Supporting Actor (George Chakiri
Physically, the West Wing is an office building located within the White House compound that holds the President's Oval Office and the offices of the President's support staff. Historically, it was bu
There are probably better things a person could do with his time than spend it watching the boorish comedy, "Sordid Lives. " You could, for instance, sit cross-legged in the middle of your living room
During the season of autumn, every Saturday afternoon finds millions of Americans watching a game of College Football. Stadiums are built to hold over a hundred thousand people, and the heritage and p
Orson Welles is said to have remarked that no great film was ever made in color. Hyperbole or no, "To Kill a Mockingbird" surely makes Welles's case. Although the movie does not quite measure up to t
For the better part of 2002, I have been reviewing Paramount's massive output of "Star Trek" DVDs. With 6 seasons of "The Next Generation" and 2-disc special editions of "The Wrath of Khan" and "The S