Streaming on Prime There have been a few science fiction masterpieces made since Star Wars (1977) and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) which started the modern day genre of science fiction, taking bold chances with the genre and with visionary imagination took us to great heights. Man had not yet landed on the moon when Stanley Kubrick gave…
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Linda (Rachel McAdams) is a predator in sheep’s clothing. A hard working part of a growing corporation she is rather brilliant at her job which the CEO recognizes and promises her a promotion in the near future. She dresses dowdy, downright schlubby, she is socially awkward, a messy eater, and longs to be a contestant on Survivor, the popular TV…
Streaming on Netflix Charlize Theron is an exceptionally attractive woman who is also blessed with startling talent. Her performance as the serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster (2003) won her a richly deserved Academy Award and she has been nominated for two others since. She deserves a nomination for her transformative physical performance in this powerful thriller, that I enjoyed…
The trouble with Michael this new sanitized version of the troubled pop star’s life, is that instead of an honest study of the life of Michael Jackson we have a version suited for families. There is no mention of the accusations of pedophilia that plagued the pop singer in his later years. Instead of exploring the tortured life of a…
Let me clear, I am writing about gangster pictures, films that go inside the world of the mob, NOT cops and robbers or crime movies. Organized crime is the order of the day with what I am exploring with this article, big and small. Warner Brothers built their studio on gangster films, romanticizing life in the mob to make it…
There is, in Warren Beatty’s remarkable film Reds, a moment that defines journalist John Reed. While covering Pancho Villa in Mexico, he rises during a battle and chases a horse drawn wagon, reaching out to touch it, but does not quite do so. That was John Reed, forever chasing history, forever wanting to witness history, to be part of it….
Often hailed as the greatest American actor throughout his seventy year career. The New York Times once hailed him as “the American Olivier” which would have angered Duvall. He candidly criticized Olivier, and the British acting system, he did not care for Olivier’s hammy work. Duvall felt realism and the quest for truth to be essential. The passing of acting…
The most famous incarnation of Victor Frankenstein’s creation was Boris Karloff’s towering creation in 1931, 1935 in the superior sequels The Bride of Frankenstein, and finally in Son of Frankenstein (1939). After Karloff a plethora of actors portrayed the creature but with none of the humanity Karloff brought to the part. Bela Lagosi, Lon Chaney Jr. and cowboy actor Glenn…
Icons, some of the cinema’s true greats slipped into eternity in 2025, yet are immortalized forever in their films or the movies they created as directors. Death came to a couple in truly tragic ways, including murder, while others passed after illnesses. No matter how famous, how wealthy, death finds each of us and comes without warning, striking us down…
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