The Hustler
June 8, 2007
The Hustler (1961) is a crucial film in Paul Newman’s career. It launched him into the Hollywood stratosphere and marked the beginning of an incredible run in the 1960s, with movies like Hud (1963), Cool Hand Luke (1967) and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance...
The Messengers
June 7, 2007
They say all homes have histories, especially ominous, run-down ones located in the middle of nowhere as is the case with the haunted house film, The Messengers (2007). This movie marks the North American debut of the Pang brothers, the filmmaking siblings...
That ’70s Show: Season 6
June 5, 2007
As the season begins, Eric (Grace) and Donna (Prepon) have graduated high school and are faced with the prospect of staying in Point Place or going to college in Madison. Kelso (Kutcher) flunked out of high school and plans to enroll in the police academy...
The Third Man
June 4, 2007
Based on a story by Graham Greene, The Third Man (1949) was the follow-up to his previous collaboration with director Carol Reed, The Fallen Idol (1948) and was not an easy film to get made but the end result speaks for itself as it has since become an...
Above the Law
May 30, 2007
Above the Law (1986) aka Righting Wrongs is a classic example of Hong Kong action cinema from the 1980s, complete with a soundtrack that evokes Harold Faltermeyer’s early 1980s work (Fletch and Beverly Hills Cop) with cheesy synthesizer music. Regardless,...
Kitchen Confidential: The Complete Series
May 30, 2007
Based on the American chef Anthony Bourdain’s professional memoir of the same name, Kitchen Confidential was a short-lived television sitcom that Fox abandoned after only airing four episodes in North America. Thirteen had actually been made, all of...
Scrubs: Season 5
May 22, 2007
As season five of Scrubs begins, J.D. (Braff) is homeless after a tenant above him crashed through his ceiling at the end of the previous season. So, he moves back in with Turk (Faison) and Carla (Reyes). Elliot (Chalke) is working at a new hospital and...
Army of Shadows
May 21, 2007
For reasons that are still unknown, Jean-Pierre Melville’s Army of Shadows (1969) was never distributed in North America. It wasn’t until April 2006 that it finally enjoyed a theatrical release on that continent. Who so long? Was it perhaps Melville’s...
Dark Corners
May 18, 2007
After acclaimed performances in two high profile movies – American Beauty (1999) and Ghost World (2001) – Thora Birch was on the brink of becoming the “next big thing.” Whether by fate or by design, she shunned the spotlight in favour of low-key...
Vengeance is Mine
May 17, 2007
Shohei Imamura’s Vengeance is Mine (1979) is based on a novel by Ryuzo Saki which was inspired by the real-life story of a serial killer. According to the booklet that accompanies the DVD, Imamura spent a year researching the facts of the case and uncovered...
