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 period piece is the most difficult film to get right. Time marches on and if an audience member catches a Starbucks cup left on a 1930s tenement stoop, the illusion is...
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...
I will be watching and reviewing all of the films included on AFI’s 100 Years…100 Passions list. The list contains the 100 greatest love stories in American cinema and I plan to...
One year after being canceled, the movie world goes back to the Mediterranean for the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival. Spike Lee is the head of the jury and Leos Carax is...
I will be watching and reviewing all of the films included on AFI’s 100 Years…100 Passions list. The list contains the 100 greatest love stories in American cinema and I plan to...
Change comes to the Oscars not with a nod in a back room, but often with an outcry or at least a strong shift in opinions. After The Elephant Man, David Lynch’s...
It’s that time of the year again; when school is out, and ice cream becomes the only way to escape the heat. And with summer, comes the return of summer blockbusters. With...
