Earth: Final Conflict Season 1
April 16, 2006
Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry died in 1991, then in 1996 his wife found papers detailing a pilot and series outline for a show that was ditched in favour of Star Trek: The Motion picture. In 1997 that series was developed and broadcast, that forgotten...
3 Films by Louis Malle
April 13, 2006
French filmmaker Louis Malle was born in 1932 in Thumeries which is located in Northern France. He grew up in a wealthy family and attended a Catholic boarding school near Paris at the age of 12. After World War II, Malle studied political science in...
Good Night, and Good Luck
April 7, 2006
2005 was a good year for politically and socially conscious films – Syriana, Munich, The Constant Gardener and Good Night, and Good Luck. The last film marked George Clooney’s sophomore directorial effort (the first being Confessions of a Dangerous...
Brokeback Mountain
April 3, 2006
Now that the hype surrounding Brokeback Mountain (2005) has started to die down, one can get past all of the superlatives heralding Ang Lee’s film as a classic and all of the jokey puns on the film’s title and concentrate on what makes it really work:...
CSI: NY: Season 1 part 2
April 2, 2006
CSI, Crime Scene Investigation is a popular American TV series, attracting 17 million viewers an episode, that has swept across the world spawning many spin offs, video games, comics, novels and heaps of other merchandise, just like many other American...
Controversial Classics Volume 2: The Power of the Media
March 31, 2006
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...
Everything is Illuminated
March 28, 2006
Based on the critically acclaimed novel of the same name by Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated (2005) is about one man’s journey to discover his roots and marks the feature film directorial debut by actor Liev Schreiber. The novel has quite...
Oliver Twist
March 27, 2006
After the critical and commercial success of The Pianist (2002), filmmaker Roman Polanski decided to do something completely different and make a children’s movie. This seems rather odd considering the adult fare that he’s usually known for (films...
Broken Flowers
March 14, 2006
Bill Murray re-teams with his Coffee & Cigarettes director Jim Jarmusch in a story about a lonely batchelor who seeks out his old flames in an attempt to uncover if he really has a son. There are two kinds of people: people who worship Jarmusch’s...
Breakfast at Tiffany’s: Anniversary Edition
March 14, 2006
Based on the novella by Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961) is one of those classic, quintessential New York City movies, like Sweet Smell of Success (1957), The World of Henry Orient (1964) and Manhattan (1979). It is a snapshot of the city...
