Amazing News- Lost ‘Metropolis’ Footage Found
Footage from Fritz Lang’s ‘Metropolis,’ long believed to have been lost has been found in Buenos Aires.
Author: Sam
Three Cool Movies with Bizarrely Named Main Characters
Usually main characters have rather normal names. Jerry McGuire. John Shaft. Joe Black. Nothing too strange, nothing too out of the ordinary. However, sometimes an interestingly named main character is just the beginning of a sign that you’re watching a special movie.
Dear Hollywood Filmmakers…
With the news coming out this week that Robert Rodriguez is working to re-make 1985’s ‘Red Sonja,’ as a starring role for his girlfriend, Rose McGowan, a number of similar Hollywood movies and Hollywood stories come to mind.
Summer of Sin: Heathers
In many ways, ‘Heathers,’ should maybe be the last film we look at in the ‘Summer of Sin’ series. It is a final statement on the teenage films of the 1980s.
DVD Review: The Darjeeling Limited
Three brothers, Peter, Jack and Francis all meet in India and re-connect in a spiritual and emotional journey through the countryside. That is the one-sentence plot of Wes Anderson’s most recent film, ‘The Darjeeling Limited.’ What sounds simple on paper turns into an on-screen character study featuring three of this era’s most interesting and watchable …
DVD Review: The Holy Mountain
This is not a movie to watch with Mom. Written, directed and co-starring Alejandro Jodorowsky, ‘The Holy Mountain’ is many things. Easily forgettable is not one of them. Jodorowsky made the film as the follow up to his indie hit, ‘El Topo.’ John Lennon was among the films admirers and he approached Jodorowsky to see …
‘Dark Knight’ Credits to Pay Tribute to Ledger
The closing credits of Christopher Nolan’s upcoming ‘The Dark Knight,’ pay tribute to both actor Heath Ledger and a stunt man killed during production. According to Warner Bros. publicity, the credits will read, ‘In memory of our friends Heath Ledger & Conway Wickliffe.’ Ledger died in January of an accidental overdose of prescription medication while …
This Week in Poorly Argued Criticism
Man in line: Wait a minute, why can’t I give my opinion? It’s a free country! Alvy: I mean, d- He can give you- Do you hafta give it so loud? I mean, aren’t you ashamed to pontificate like that?
DVD Review: American Gangster
It seems that if you are a working filmmaker in America these days, at some point, you will make a mob movie. It’s Ridley Scott’s turn and his effort is ‘American Gangster,’ starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe.
Summer of Sin: Paradise
The poster tag line was, ‘if it could have been forever.’ Well, it wasn’t, but it felt like it. ‘Paradise,’ the rip-off film inspired, (if that’s the right word,) by the box office