Maria Bello

Stephen King’s “Big Driver” rolls in on DVD

November 20, 2014 // 0 Comments

Lionsgate Home Entertainment has added Big Driver to its release calendar, bringing the movie starring Maria Bello, Olympia Dukakis, Joan Jett and Will Harris to DVD in January. Tess Thorne, a famous writer, faces a long drive home following a book [...]

Prisoners

January 2, 2014 // 0 Comments

Prisoners The abduction of their children is without a doubt the biggest nightmare imaginable for any parent. The anguish and the pain cannot be fathomed and the fear of such a kidnapping puts most parent on edge. The question is only natural then, what [...]

The Jane Austen Book Club

February 15, 2008 // 0 Comments

Robin Swicard's first commercial feature film "The Jane Austin Book Club" is one of those films some people would hesitate picking up based on the title and perhaps the boxcover. Especially, like myself, if you aren't familiar with the [...]

World Trade Center

February 16, 2007 // 0 Comments

"We prepared for everything. Not for this. Not for something this size." I'll skip the political commentary and sum up my initial thoughts with this: everyone remembers where they were on September 11th. Most of you probably remember where [...]

World Trade Center

February 16, 2007 // 0 Comments

"We prepared for everything. Not for this. Not for something this size." I'll skip the political commentary and sum up my initial thoughts with this: everyone remembers where they were on September 11th. Most of you probably remember where [...]

This Film Is Not Yet Rated

February 15, 2007 // 0 Comments

"There are clergy in the room. These are moral censors…" The Motion Picture Association of America, a bitter cocktail that's blessed and haunted the film industry since its inception, comes under fire in this documentary from Oscar [...]

Thank You for Smoking

September 26, 2006 // 0 Comments

Smoking is good for you. It can help you live to be 100 years old. All of the best doctors do it. At least, so boasts a series of imitation-vintage cigarette ads in writer/director Jason Reitman's "Thank You for Smoking." Actually, the [...]

Assault On Precinct 13

May 17, 2006 // 0 Comments

Virtually all Hollywood studios spend more time these days remaking classic movies – many of which really don't need remakes – than thinking up new concepts. Any way I look at it, I think it is a sad testimony to the state the movie [...]

A History Of Violence

February 23, 2006 // 0 Comments

When I first inserted "A History In Violence" in my DVD player I did not know what to expect, really. Then it reads there "A film by David Cronenberg." Okay… I had no idea. I remembered the trailers for the movie I had seen and it [...]

Assault On Precinct 13

June 13, 2005 // 0 Comments

Virtually all Hollywood studios spend more time these days remaking classic movies – many of which really don’t need remakes – than thinking up new concepts. Here now we have a modern-day remake of John Carpenter’s cult classic [...]
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