I have to admit that I’ve never been a big fan of the original "Stepford Wives" from 1975. I always found the film a tad too dry and unexciting for its own good. However, under the direction of Frank Oz, whose body of work I greatly admire and [...]
"Birthday Girl" was one of four films produced under a five-year joint venture between Miramax and London-based HAL Films before creative differences and personality clashes caused the partnership to break up after two and a half years. It was [...]
During the summer of 2001, when the typical "gee whiz" action films and gross-out comedies were invading theaters, a little horror film entitled "The Others" snuck into the multiplexes. Featuring a pre-Oscar buzz Nicole Kidman and a [...]
Infamous director Stanley Kubrick’s last film, "Eyes Wide Shut" was surrounded by a lot of scandalous controversy when it first appeared in theaters. Not only had the director died only days before the film’s official first screening, Warner [...]
The first time I was watching "Dead Calm", I remember that I was completely captivated by this menacing thriller. Although I was familiar with Sam Neill at the time, mostly from hisdiabolic performance of Damien in "Omen III: The Final [...]
