It’s great to see films from my childhood getting much needed attention on the DVD format, especially ones that seem to hold a sort of ’classic’ status for nostalgic reasons, and this film fits that bill. Brought up by an all Black family, the very [...]
Based on the DC Comics / Vertigo "Hellblazer" Graphic Novels, Keanu Reeves stars as John Constantine, a peace-keeper of sorts, wandering the streets of Los Angeles to ensure a somewhat equilibrium between God and Satan on Earth, in the [...]
Sandy (Sigourney Weaver) and Ben Travis (Jeff Daniels) are the parents of Matt (Kip Pardue), a well-admired and successful swimming athlete, who surprisingly chooses to end his own life at an early age, leaving the members of his family to deal with the [...]
Clint Eastwood stars as boxing trainer Frankie Dunn, in the story of female boxer Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank) determined to fulfill her one and only dream of becoming a champion, in the Academy Award winning "Million Dollar Baby". Eastwood [...]
Having seen the film ’The Boondock Saints’ and hearing the stories behind the story of how this film came to be, I decided to view the documentary ’Overnight’. This is the story of Troy Duffy, a Boston bartender who gets a shot at stardom, after [...]
With this latest onslaught of thriller and suspense films to hit DVD, all with similar pace and storylines, it’s easy to get them confused with one another. Though not groundbreaking, ’Hide and Seek’ manages to rise slightly above the pack, thanks [...]
To be honest, I never heard about or had the chance to experience the musical performances of Klaus Nomi (born under the name Klaus Sperber in Essen, Germany in 1944) until I had the opportunity to see the documentary ’The Nomi Song: The Klaus Nomi [...]
In Hollywood it is only a matter of time until even the most hard-ass action stars attempt to show us their ’softer’ side and take on a more family-friendly role. This time it’s Vin Diesel’s turn in Walt Disney’s ’The Pacifier.’ Diesel plays [...]
How cool would it be spending your days doing something that you thoroughly enjoyed, while getting paid tons of cash to do it? Most of us strive for this in life and yet only a few succeed at that goal. Mark ’Gator’ Rogowski was one of those [...]
This is Pauly Shore’s parody-telling of how he went from a once popular comedic talent and film star, who got his start at the famous Comedy Store, owned by his mother, to become an almost forgotten celebrity. Pauly has fellow Hollywood celebrities [...]
