In honor of Respect, the latest of other legendary singers (Judy Garland, Nina Simone) getting their own biopic, I thought I would go down memory lane to look at other lives on...
This is a spicy set we have for this month. Some are full of boundary pushers who make scenes stand out to shock us, others are moving snippets of life in general....
So, we saw Space Jam: A New Legacy. Okay, we can now all laugh at how ridiculous it was. It's supposed to be because it's for kids, not the adults who remembered...
I recently read a book that is both entertaining and eye-opening called "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls" by Peter Biskind. Published in 1998, this best-seller details the era of New Hollywood from 1967's...
This is my third (maybe fourth) piece on disasters in filmmaking because they are both funny and horrifying. It is where a director's ego and the studio's pocketbook collide, lighting on fire...
This time, it's only four films getting released. A masterpiece of Polish cinema involving a mysterious figure working underground as part of the Resistance against the occupying Germans. A live documentary on...
He was only fifty-two years old when he was dead in the bathroom of his mansion from drug-related heart failure on January 19, 1996. Tragically young, but not surprising to anyone in...
The question of movies becoming political has existed since the invention of movies and has been subject to debate. Can escapism co-exist with realism or do movies have to lean in one...
