American Made tells the story of Barry Seal (Tom Cruise), a TWA pilot who is recruited by the CIA to fly reconnaissance missions over Communist strongholds in Central America. He does such a good job and has such a good reputation that a Colombian drug cartel recruits him to fly drugsContinue Reading
When I was a young boy, one of the first albums that ever caught my interest was Live at Folsom Prison by Johnny Cash. Along with albums by The Beatles and Elvis Presley that I’d “borrowed” from my parents’ collection, that one spent a lot of time on my turntable.Continue Reading
Dr. Alfred Kinsey attempted to shed some light on the subject of human sexuality which, according to the film Kinsey, was considered absolutely taboo in the late 1940s. Kinsey published two books, “Sexual Behavior in the Human Male” and “Sexual Behavior in the Human Female”, in which he documented the results ofContinue Reading
The last time Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese paired-up, it was for the disastrous Gangs of New York, a movie that had no clue as to what, exactly, it wanted to be. It tried to be everything and wound up a giant, bloated mess of a movie. The Aviator, whileContinue Reading
Aileen Wuornos was America’s first female serial killer according to the Guinness Book of World Records. Convicted of killing six men in Florida, she was put to death in October, 2002. Monster, a film from first-time director Patty Jenkins, details the story of how a roadside prostitute became a serialContinue Reading
For some, Steven Spielberg’s 1993 film Schindler’s List is the benchmark of Holocaust-themed movies. That may have changed. The Pianist, which marks the return to form of director Roman Polanski, chronicles one man’s escape from certain death into an uncertain day-to-day existence in the hell that was the Warsaw ghetto.Continue Reading
Salma Hayek fought for years to get the life story of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo made into a film. Madonna and Jennifer Lopez also attempted to get versions of her life to the big screen. (For the life of me, I can’t see why Madonna would think herself right forContinue Reading