’Monsieur Verdoux’ was one of Charles Chaplin’s later films and is a gem that stands on its own. Although his trademark slapstick can be found in a very few select scenes in the movie, ’Monsieur Verdoux’ is a rather dramatic film that uses humor [...]
"It’s a strange world." This line, repeated several times during the film, perfectly summarizes David Lynch’s brilliant "Blue Velvet". Few people are tepid in their opinion of Mr. Lynch’s work. His followers are dedicated, his [...]
I’ve written before about the great job that Anchor Bay does restoring older, obscure films. Recently, Anchor Bay has continued this trend, and it seems that they are trying to fill the needs of film fans, no matter how marketable a film may be. Anchor [...]
’The Myth Of Fingerprints’ is a family drama with big emotions. Carefully written and directed by Bart Freundlich, the movie encapsulates everything you can image in an empathetic modern family story. It has romantic moments, deeply emotional and is [...]
A lot of controversy has surrounded the release of "Fight Club" both as a novel and the subsequent film by David Fincher. While the reason for the controversy can be easily spotted in the works, I found it generally less problematic after seeing [...]
In the mid-eighties, horror was searching for a new identity. The slasher cycle was all but dead, and the wave of zombie films was beginning to run its course. While filmmakers in America were floundering in rehashed ideas (save for films like [...]
Starring Deborah Kerr, Van Johnson and John Mills, ’The End Of The Affair’ is a stylish drama based on Graham Greene’s novel of the same name. Placed in London during the second World War, Sarah, the wife of a British civil servant falls in love [...]
’No Way Out’ is an engaging politic thriller that features a great cast with Kevn Costner and Gene Hackman in the leads. It nicely portrays the power play in Washington’s political circles, where a young commander becomes the target of a witch hunt [...]
One of the most impressive things about DVDs thus far (besides the picture and sound quality) is the number of catalog titles that have been released. Most of the studios have been doing an admirable job of mixing new releases with older films. The only [...]
In the summer of 1816, the great English poets Lord Byron and Percy Shelley, Byron’s biographer Dr. John Polidori and Shelley’s then-fiancé, Mary Godwin gathered at a villa in Switzerland. One night, they challenged each other to create a ghost [...]
