With the kids in the backseat buckled up tight, you’re headed for grandma’s house, an all-day drive. The great American family vacation road trip–a time for bonding and sharing each other’s interests. A time for pulling your hair out one by one.
As long as Americans pile the kids in the car for a [...]
Didn’t most of us in a sense grow up with Bob DeNiro?
Starting with his unforgettable Taxi Driver (1976), DeNiro always treated us to cinematic excellence through his characters on the violent edge of life: Goodfellas (1990), Casino, The Deer Hunter (1978), Camp Fear (1991), The Godfather Trilogy, The Untouchables (1987).
Born in New York City on [...]
The portrayal of Gollum/Sméagol in the second installment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy provides an excellent demonstration of split/mind duality in action. The conversations, disagreements and arguments iterated by these two characters as good versus evil, victim versus manipulator, self verses self - give us insight to the very same battles that [...]
I really like movies. I really like books. I really like television. All three of these statements are true but all three of these statements have qualifiers. What is really interesting to me is that despite being very different mediums, they all have the same qualifiers. I like movies, books [...]
Where have characters like steely faced Humphrey Bogart standing in the doorway with a cigarette in one hand and a revolver in the other gone? Where has the likes of John Wayne, Gary Cooper, James Cagney, and Robert Mitchum gone? The fact is that these actors are no longer in the land of [...]
Nominated for a single Emmy in its short three season stint, Wonder Woman - which premiered in 1976 - was the third attempt by the major networks to bring the popular comic book character to TV. Created as the result of a collaboration between the multi-talented William M. Marston and DC Comics publisher Maxwell Gaines, [...]
One of the funniest movies of 2003, Old School is silver screen gold for anyone who lived the life of a college party animal or once inhabited the halls of a beloved fraternity house. In the spirit of Animal House and PCU, Old School brings together a strange amalgam of immature males who wreck havoc [...]
Below courtesy of WeinsteinCo. are a batch of new images from Scary Movie 4, which stars Anna Faris, Shaun Landers, Shaquille O’Neal, Regina Hall, Phil Mcgraw, Leslie Nielsen, Carmen Electra, Simon Rex, Michael Madsen, and Craig Bierko. In this fourth installment of the popular “Scary Movie” series, recent horror and sci-fi movies such as “Saw [...]
In the beginning, you see, there were only the stars. There were the music hall stars, then there were the radio stars, then you had the movie stars, and after came pop and rock stars. Eventually a whole industry grew up around them to tell us all about them, about their likes and their dislikes, [...]