Watching “At Long Last Love,” I wondered if this 1975 comedy-musical featuring the music of Cole Porter was the inspiration for “Across the Universe” (2007), with its all-Beatles soundtrack, or “M
Watching “No,” the 2012 Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, it’s hard not to think of the film that won big that year. Like “Argo,” this drama from Pablo Larrain is based on a tr
When I reviewed the Blu-ray of**“Oz the Great and Powerful”** I knew without seeing it that the 3D version would be even more spectacular. Why? Because so many visual elements in the film seemed to be
“Combat!” was the longest-running WWII drama on television, airing on ABC from 1962-1967. And Season 3 was the biggest direct hit with the viewing public. That year, “Combat!” became the 10th most
Mill Creek Entertainment forges on with their budget conscious releases that help bring obscure little films to the public in an HD format. Many of these releases are of older films in which easily co
H.G. Wells's vision of a future radically transformed by technology has proven accurate enough; he simply missed on the scale. Wells dreamed of gigantic machines that enabled heroic achievements; mass
When I first heard that Disney was planning to make a prequel to “The Wizard of Oz,” I thought, what next? A prequel for “Gone with the Wind” or “Casablanca”? It seemed both arrogant and ill advised.
It’s hard to argue against the success Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has achieved in just about everything he has done. Johnson, as a student, won a national championship as a defensive tackle with the Un
Aaron Sorkin, writer of "The West Wing", "The Social Network" and "Moneyball" has a sort of trademarked handle on fast talking, maybe not so realistic but damn entertaining dialogue. His latest work i
An updated version of a classic fairy tale, “Jack the Giant Slayer” is a fun, albeit slightly misdirected, ride through the 14th century land where royalty rules, peasants exist to serve and giant
Sometimes the most compelling ghosts aren’t the ones that hover in the halls or stack the furniture on the kitchen table. The ones in our own heads haunt just as well. In “The Awakening,” Rebecca
I don’t give a rat’s behind how many kung fu movies you’ve seen, or how many films over stylize martial arts these days so they look sexy. “Enter the Dragon” is, hands down, the best of them all.