Tootsie: Criterion Collection

When it was released, Tootsie (1982) was a commercial and critical hit that poked fun at the women’s liberation movement as an actor struggled to find roles and out of frustration he began dressing up as a woman in order to get a job. In retrospect,... 

4 Movie Collection: Comedy

During the late 1980s to the early 1990s, Geena Davis could seemingly do no wrong, appearing in successful films like Beetlejuice (1988), Thelma and Louise (1991), and A League of Their Own (1992). Among these hits was Hero (1992), a high profile comedy... 

Stranger than Fiction

At some point in their careers many comedians want to be taken seriously. Robin Williams, Jim Carrey and Adam Sandler have all tried their hand at more dramatic fare with varying degrees of success. Lately, Will Ferrell has been making inroads at more... 

Controversial Classics Volume 2: The Power of the Media

The 1970s was a fertile time for challenging, politically charged movies. Thanks to Easy Rider (1969) a lot of riskier material was getting green-lit by the major Hollywood studios and, in some cases; they were commenting on the current political climate... 

Finding Neverland

What made author James M. Barrie such a brilliant fantasist is that he could see the world differently, as a child might and was not tied down by society’s stuffy conventions. Finding Neverland (2004) is based loosely on an account of how he wrote his... 

I Heart Huckabees

“We’re not in infinity, we’re in the suburbs.” – Albert I Heart Huckabees (2004) is a strange movie. After satirically skewering the U.S.’ involvement in the first Gulf War with Three Kings (1999), David O. Russell took some time off to regroup... 

Runaway Jury

The umpteenth John Grisham courtroom drama also happens to be one of the best, with Cusack, Hoffman and Hackman chewing the scenery like hungry dogs. You’d be forgiven for passing by Runaway Jury in the shops, thinking it was just another Grisham...