Director John Frankenheimer is no stranger to movies about espionage and conspiracies. He had just finished the successful "Manchurian Candidate" when in 1964 he decided to film Fletcher Knebel and Ch
It's rare that a History (the History Channel is now known simply as History) documentary creates a popular buzz, but for a while last month I couldn't get through a day without someone mentioning "th
Along with "Knute Rockne: All American" (1940), this 1942 film about baseball legend Lou Gehrig was one of the first sports biopics. Curiously, though, there's not nearly as much baseball in the film
By the 1930s most moviegoers came to know certain of the major studios for the kinds of movies they specialized in. Disney made cartoons, Universal had their monster flicks, MGM had the musicals, and
For over a year, now, fans have been waiting for the previously announced and then shelved Blu-ray release of "Gattaca. " Well, it's finally here . . . and with new cover art that shows a double helix
The Coen brothers are batting .500--not for their career, certainly, but for this year's Academy Awards. "No Country for Old Men" won four Oscars (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, B
The first teaming of Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith as the "Men In Black" was a joyous experience that sent me to the theaters three times. It
"My Lovely Sam-Soon" is a hilarious, yet touching romantic comedy about a woman who is tough and opinionated on the outside, yet soft and craving love on the inside. It follows her as she takes contro
When you see the words "A Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer production," you know the film is going to have gigantic explosions that give rise to huge fireballs--in slow motion, of course. There's als
Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman wrote the first "Dragonlance" novel in 1984. As the first novel of the Dragonlance Chronicles, "Dragons of the Autumn Twilight" was reluctantly supported by then-parent
"The Pianist" is Roman Polanski's best film since the 1974 classic "Chinatown. " The fugitive director earned an Academy Award for Best Director and Adrien Brody earned a Best Actor Oscar. The film al
Charles Burnett's "Killer of Sheep" (1977) has been a legendary film almost from the moment it was released. It is, of course, a great film, but its legend owes even more to the fact that the film has