In "Only God Forgives," writer and director Nicolas Winding Refn continues his cage-fight with the boundaries of genre film in his latest, an existential revenge story set in the dark underworld o
I like the way way that indie cinema has lately managed to retain the characteristics that set indie pics apart from commercial movies, but jettisoned the notion that happy or uplifting endings are to
Mill Creek Entertainment's release of double features can be hit or miss. Typically the pairings are odd at best with only a few being a combo of films that you would watch right after one another. Re
Watching **“The Internship,”**I couldn’t shake the feeling that I was reliving “Stripes” all over again—only instead of Bill Murray and Harold Ramis as the laid-back, unconventional “leaders” of a bun
Halloween beckons. Instead of spending the days leading up to this fear inspired annual late October day watching edited mid-1980s horror flicks on AMC, why not try on **“The Conjuring”**for size? It’
A lot can change in 20 years. Just ask Jesse and Celine. In “Before Midnight”, we catch up with the stars of the film series that began with their first meeting, 1995’s “Before Sunrise”, and continued
When “Cars”(2006) was first announced, I wasn’t terribly optimistic. I thought Pixar’s streak of hits was going to end at six with 2004’s “The Incredibles,” because I had seen Twentieth Century Fo
Escape aboard your rickety ship from the Island of Lost Souls. Go on, sail right into the storm, what can be worse? By the time your ship wrecks, you've blown so far of course you stumble ashore in an
Here's hoping Hollywood never gets around to remaking “I Married A Witch” (1942). The rumored Tom Cruise project(with Danny DeVito directing) from ten years ago might merely have been a disposable nui
“Monsters University” makes complete sense as a prequel—the first time, by the way, that Pixar has attempted such a thing. That’s because in the original “Monsters, Inc.” the two main monsters are
My father taught American history and geography for 35 years to middle school students. We were raised to know, among other things, that history was, is and will always be extremely important. This sa
“Shrek the Musical” opened at the Broadway Theatre on November 8, 2008 and closed a little more than a year later, after 441 performances. For Broadway, that’s a short to medium run, but it wasn’t