Return
February 20, 2006
Films about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq continue to be hard sell with American audiences. Perhaps it is because we are still living through them, still experiencing loved ones coming home from the Middle East maimed, scarred or dead. Nobody wants...
Vanya on 42nd Street: Criterion Collection
February 20, 2006
Vanya on 42nd Street (1994) began in 1989 as an extended workshop by legendary stage director Andre Gregory. He assembled a cast of actors to rehears Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya at the abandoned Victory Theater on 42nd Street in New York City. They...
Halls of Anger
February 20, 2006
Halls of Anger (1970) carries on in the tradition of hard-hitting urban youth films like Blackboard Jungle (1955) with angry youth rebelling against the authoritarian teachers albeit dealing with racially charged issues. Quincy Davis (Lockhart) is an...
The Outsiders – The Complete Novel
February 20, 2006
“When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.” And so begins S.E. Hinton’s classic novel about troubled youths in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In 1983, fans...
Masculin, Feminin
February 20, 2006
Masculin Feminin (1966) was seen as a radical departure for Jean-Luc Godard because of its overt political message and openness about sex. Up until then he was the critical darling with hits like À bout de souffle (1960), Bande à part (1964) and Pierrot...
Dark Shadows: The Revival
February 20, 2006
While the original Dark Shadows in the late 1960s was very campy, the show’s creator, Dan Curtis, decided to make the ‘90s incarnation a more serious take in the Hammer horror tradition. He is the godfather of TV horror with an impressive resume that...
Charmed: Season 3
February 19, 2006
The third season of Charmed marked the last one for Shannen Doherty. Officially, she left due to “creative differences” with rumours abounding that they were with Alyssa Milano. Seeing as how Milano was one of the show’s executive producers, it...
November
February 19, 2006
Since the popular T.V. show Friends ended its long run there’s been some speculation as to what the cast would do next. Some have stayed on T.V. (Matt LeBlanc and Lisa Kudrow) and some have moved on to movies (Jennifer Aniston). Courteney Cox has followed...
Busting
February 14, 2006
The 1970’s was a great decade for gritty buddy cop movies with the likes of The French Connection (1971) and Hickey & Boggs (1972). 1974 was a particularly good year with The Super Cops (1974), Freebie and the Bean (1974) and the largely forgotten...
Cinderella Man
February 14, 2006
Cinderella Man (2005) had all the ingredients for a successful, prestigious crowd-pleaser: it’s a classic underdog story made by the Academy Award-winning team behind A Beautiful Mind (2001). And yet, despite all of this talent in front of and behind...
