Just as "MAS*H" survived quite nicely following the exodus of Wayne Rogers, McLean Stevenson, and Larry Linville, "Cheers" did just fine after Shelley Long left the popular sitcom. In fact, it was p
"The Outsiders," book and movie, is one of the most remarkable success stories in the history of literature. In 1965 Susan Hinton, a high school student in Tulsa, Oklahoma, wrote a short story that s
"I firmly believe that any man's finest hour--his greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear...is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle-
This is a good example of a filmmaker having his heart set so firmly in the right place, he couldn't see beyond it. One cannot dispute that writer and director Charles Burnett's 1994 movie "The Glass
Art imitates art imitates art. How can you not like a film that begins and ends with a roaring gunfight, particularly when the film owes its allegiance to Sam Peckinpah's "The Wild Bunch" and afterwar
Spencer Tracy was a tremendous actor, but he was as badly miscast as Hemingway's Cuban fisherman in the 1958 version of "The Old Man and the Sea" as John Wayne was as Genghis Khan ("The Conquerer," 19
No, "Ice Princess" is not about that girl you dated in high school. It's a lightweight Disney teen drama. The "Ice" part comes in because the main character in the story is a teenage girl who goes fr
The first time I saw the 1991 remake of "Father of the Bride" with Steve Martin, I had my doubts going in. Memories of the original, 1950, Vincente Minnelli movie with Spencer Tracy as the flustered p
One of the few times I've known a Director's Cut to turn a bad film into a good one was "Daredevil. " That hasn't changed. The new, unrated Director's Cut of "Gone in Sixty Seconds" contains nine more
It's hard to believe that screen icon James Dean, whose name is known to probably every filmgoer in the world, starred in only three films before his tragic death in a car accident. When Warner Bros.
There was a time when Steven Seagal was B-A-A-D in a campy sort of way. Now he's just bad, and whoever convinced him to make "Submerged" should be severely chastised and held up to public ridicule.
When you've got a good thing, go with it. Which is exactly what Fox studios are doing with some of their more popular recent hit movies by reissuing them in two-disc Collector's Editions. Basically, t