The thin line between reality and legend is a theme that Woody Allen has explored with great success in movies such as "Take the Money and Run", "Zelig", and "Broadway Danny Rose". He continues the tradition with "Sweet [...]
One of the more intellectual filmmakers of modern times, Woody Allen has always managed to create comedies, satires and parodies that are thought provoking and full of deeper meanings. The subtext in each of these films is enormous and his skills as a [...]
Is it just me, or do television mini-series become increasingly more prolific? I think I have never seen so many great television movies than in the past two years. Trimark Home Video just brings is the latest entry in the genre with their story of the [...]
The world of musical theater is a world of collaboration. Names like Rodgers and Hammerstein have become one item, just as Gilbert and Sullivan have, in the collective conscious. "Topsy-Turvy" is a movie that focuses on a point in the career of [...]
The old saying in Hollywood goes, "You’re only as good as your last picture." But, people are always looking forward to your next picture as well. When George Romero decided to follow-up his international hit "Dawn of the Dead" with [...]
Most of you certainly remember Gordon Gekko, Michael Douglas’ unscrupulous character in Oliver Stone’s 1987 drama "Wall Street, " one of the few Hollywood movies that tackled the inside of Wall Street and the stock market. Due to its inate [...]
Turning a comic book into a feature film is no easy task, as many Hollywood studios can certainly attest. When Golden Harvest, Hong Kong’s largest film studio, and special-effects company Centro teamed up to use one of Hong Kong’s best-selling comic [...]
China has a very rich and intriguing history, much of which is either unknown to most Western people, or so bewildering that most people simply lose track of who was who and who did what when. Columbia TriStar Home Video has now prepared a beautiful DVD [...]
"The Guns of Navarone" is widely hailed as one of the greatest adventure films of all time. And it’s no wonder, considering the wealth of talent that was involved in its production. Starring Gregory Peck, David Niven, and Anthony Quinn; [...]
When, some years ago, I first read Anne Rice’s novel "Interview with the Vampire", I was impressed by the unique, romantic view she used to explore the vampire subject. Ever since the publication of the novel, the genre has been turned upside [...]
