"The hotel business is about strangers. And strangers will always surprise you. They come to hotels in the night to do dirty things, and in the morning it's our job to make things look pretty again. "
A rapid rise to stardom, replete with wealth, fame, fans, and groupies clamoring for a piece of the newly formed celebrity can be hard to take for the best-rounded individual. When it happens to a chi
ou know the phrase "Pretty as a picture"? Well, "Under the Tuscan Sun" is just that, the very quintessence of a pretty picture. The movie is frothy and light and hasn't a brain in its head, but it's
Some films are so legendary that you have to wonder how it is that you missed seeing them. Italian director Federico Fellini is such an iconic name that I've often alluded to him when joking about peo
Since their inception the Disney folks have been shrewd enough to know how to maximize their profits. In the beginning they started the practice of re-releasing their major animated features to theate
Warner Bros. studios continue their extraordinary series of two-disc special edition classics with this re-release of "My Fair Lady" on DVD. It's appropriate that the film celebrate its fortieth anniv
Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (1865) and "Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There" (1871) have been brought to the screen many times, but, oddly enough, none of the m
When Quentin Tarantino made "Kill Bill," it was said he based his story on every old Hong Kong martial-arts movie he could lay his eyes on. If so, then 1982's "Duel to the Death" must have been one of
"Ninety per cent of cops go through their entire career without ever firing their gun. " --Michael Madsen, "44 Minutes" And then there are those few times when they do draw their weapons, and it's fr
The knocks against this offbeat dramatic romance are easy to see. Some people will find it overly sentimental, melodramatic, and pretentious. Its situations will seem exaggerated, its dialogue insipid
Despite the fact that you are going to hear a good deal of negative criticism from me about this film in the next few minutes, and despite my lack of any serious regard for its credibility, let me beg
It's safe to say that "Alien Quadrilogy" at a whopping nine discs is one of the biggest sets of DVDs ever devoted to a specific series of theatrical releases. The package includes regular and special