“The Lion King” (1994) had some pretty intense, Bambi’s-mother-got-shot moments that made an otherwise wonderful animated film a bit iffy for smaller children. Not only was one of the character’s pare
The complicated and unhappy life of nurse Jackie continues in the third season of the “Nurse Jackie” series. Before I go any further, I want to highlight that this review is, in fact, for the third se
Pardon me if I get a little choked up, but this is Rainer Werner Fassbinder we’re talking about. The term “force of nature” may be greatly overused, but there’s no better description for the dynamo th
"No means no. Isn't that what we tell women? Do men deserve less? " Uh-oh. It's another Michael Douglas character having trouble with women. You'd think his screen characters would have learned bette
“National Lampoon’s The Legend of Awesomest Maximus” is for people who want to see nudity without the stigma of watching porn, and for those who’d rather suffer through 87 minutes of mostly bad co
Sometime in the late 1700's, during the era when Korea was known as "Josun," a young girl named Yoon-hee struggles to support her mother and ailing younger brother. Unusually well-educated for a girl,
*Note: In the following joint Blu-ray review, Yunda Eddie Feng and Dean Winkelspecht join John in providing their opinions of the film, with John also writing up the Video, Audio, Extras, and Parting
There’s only one thing wrong with “The Interrupters”—a 2011 documentary about people who survived their inner city upbringing and are now trying to help others do the same by “interrupting” before
"Why would my key fit into your father's machine? " Because I go to the movies almost every week, I see a lot of trailers. It seemed as though I watched the preview for 2011's "Hugo" about 800 times
In an essay in the Criterion booklet for “Vanya on 42nd Street,” author Steven Vineberg writes: “the project… strips down Chekhov’s late-nineteenth century story (“Uncle Vanya”) about Russian intellec
He is not an outlaw; he is...the most interesting cat in the world! If you loved him in "Shrek" 2, 3, and 4, you'll probably love him even more in this 2011 animation devoted entirely to that charmin
One I’ll soon be a grandpa All the pretty girls will call me “sir” Now, where they’re asking me how things are Soon they’ll ask me how things were I thought of those lyrics by Jimmy Buffett as I wa