Time Life just released “China Beach: The Complete Collection” in a handsome boxed set that features all four seasons in individual keep cases, for those who’d rather ditch the box and put them on
Director and star Sir Laurence Olivier doesn't shy away from center stage in this adaptation of Shakespeare's “Richard III” (1955) nor would any sane person want him to. By stripping away or at least
Horror movies have a built in success formula. It all starts with their audience, mostly young folks ranging from 13 to 25 years of age looking for cheap and safe thrills. And since it’s not high art,
So, you've heard about "Snake Eyes" and you think you've seen it all before. Well, you're not psychic and you're not crazy. You have seen it all before. Writer-director Brian DePalma has often in his
The word ‘masterpiece’ gets tossed around a little too frequently when discussing certain films. However, there is no other way to describe “Schindler’s List,” except to call it a masterpiece. Spielb
Every day, billions of people work with machines they don’t understand. How many of us talking monkeys actually know how a cell phone works? But all around us is the biggest machine of all, complex an
“Shanghai Noon” isn’t just a fun pun on the Gary Cooper classic Western, “High Noon.” It’s a clever variation on the buddy cop picture, with Jackie Chan showing both his comic chops and his martia
It's tempting to think of 1950s Japanese cinema as the bleakest of wastelands, a litany of unending misery from “Sansho the Bailiff” (1954) to “The Ballad of Narayama” (1958) to “Fires on the Plain” (
“Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War” is a 26-part series that initially ran on Canadian television. All 13 hours are presented on 4 DVDs in this excellent Time Life DVD set, which tells the story o
According to the “Not Fade Away” press release, the title was cited as one of the top 10 films of the year by the Associated Press, New York Times and more. I suppose, from a filmmaking or artisti
Philip Kaufman, director of “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” and “The Right Stuff” helms his newest movie “Hemingway and Gellhorn”, a look into an exploratory time of Ernest Hemingway’s life in
Former ballerina and Mrs. World 2006 winner Sofya Skya stars and co-directs (along with Robert Crombie) the action/revenge story**“Assassins Run.”**The film is kind of “Taken” meets “Haywire” with the