Abel Ferrara took on Jack Finney’s horror/sci-fi classic of aliens out to get the human race with 1993’s “Body Snatchers.” While the story is effectively told and is a good tale, sadly it is inevitably compared to the two previous “Body Snatchers” movies which, for my money, are some of the best films of their …
If food and meals truly bring people together, is it that big a leap to see food bridging the gap of time and distance to bring two people together? In Nora Ephron’s “Julie & Julia,” the two brought together, (so to speak,) are Julie Powell and Julia Child.
If you’ve seen every episode of “The Cosby Show,” and are disappointed that you haven’t seen Dr. Cliff Huxtable shoot anyone down in cold blood, have I got a movie for you. 1972’s “Hickey & Boggs,” re-teams Bill Cosby with former “I, Spy,” co-star Robert Culp. (Culp also directed the film.) “Boggs,” is a typical 1970s …
In a war of words, it’s not always he who yells loudest who wins. For almost all of the characters in “In the Loop,” this is a lesson that has yet to be learned. As the film opens, the Secretary of State for International Development says in an interview with BBC radio says that a …
While I was watching Woody Allen’s latest movie, “Whatever Works,” I kept wondering if this was the end- if we were through with seeing great Woody Allen movies. I only had to remind myself that his last film won one Oscar, was nominated for a couple others, and also took home a couple of Golden …
Roger Moore took over the role of James Bond in 1973’s “Live and Let Die.” Made at the height of the black film explosion, (better known as blaxploitation,) Moore’s debut featured an African-American villain, with African-American henchmen.
Editor’s note: The Unseen is a somewhat regular column, looking at movies that are out of print, never released on DVD and otherwise hard to find. In the 1990s, filmmakers seemed obsessed with taking old school children’s entertainment, updating it to film, and releasing it on an unsuspecting public, believing that parents would take their …
The narrator states right at the beginning of ‘500 Days of Summer’ that this film is not a love story. You think, “Yeah right. It has a boy, a girl, and its about their relationship, how is that not a love story.” Well, I’ll further afirm the fact, that ‘500 Days of Summer’ is not …
Editor’s note: The Unseen is a somewhat regular column, looking at movies that are out of print, never released on DVD and otherwise hard to find. For some time, if a movie made money, the question has been not if there was going to be a sequel, but instead the question would be how bad …
Put away the robots that are little more than an advertisement for the tie-in merchandise. This is what a summer movie can, should and could be. Michael Mann’s “Public Enemies,” is a study of gangster John Dillinger and the things that make a folk hero tick.