Ypres. A city in Belgium. It’s pronounced “ee-pruh”, but in the parlance of the British Army in World War I, called “Wipers.” And in this shell-frayed pocket of the great, muddy overcoat of WWI, an ex
It’s seldom that a DVD set is packaged like a Blu-ray collection, but maybe the 100th Anniversary of World War I was enough for Warner Bros. to make an exception. This **“World War I Centennial Commem
If "Rio" showed that 20th Century Fox Animation had finally moved into Disney’s neighborhood, with "Rio 2" they’ve taken off their shoes and propped their feet up on the coffee table. This talente
I’m one of those who reads a movie title like it’s a headline, and the tagline as if it were a subhead. So initially the cover packaging for “Made in America” made no sense to me: “Dream It. Do It.” T
You can’t help but wonder whether or not the modern day biblical adaptations that grace the silver screen every so often are in any way, shape or form like what really happened. Or didn’t happen. Or s
I remember being a snot-nosed nine year old and seeing the television commercial for "Saturday the 14th. " At the time, it looked to be pretty humorous. I especially remember the line "I have bats in
A vast, chilly wasteland. Violence and madness. Reason competing with animal instinct. No, it’s not a documentary about Black Friday shopping at Walmart. In the 13-episode SyFy original series **“Hel
"A new era has begun. The age of the Transformers is over…" Oh, where to even begin with this movie. We might as well start with the plot, such as it is. "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" concluded
While the production history of “The Boondocks” is not as tortured as, say, “Community” or “Spiderman: Turn Off The Dark,” Aaron McGruder’s animated series has seen its fair share of bumps and bru
The found footage horror movie has come in for a lot of abuse lately, much of it deserved. With few exceptions, the trope of “here’s the footage we found with the mutilated bodies” has become a self-s
*The following text begins with the review written by John J. Puccio for the 2002 Miramax DVD release of “A Hard Day's Night.” The rest is written by Christopher Long on the occasion of the 2014 Crite
Directors working with Robin Williams have often expressed the same concern: How do you get the naturally manic comedian to tone it down, just a little? But it was a non-issue for Mike Nichols (“The