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
I write this review on the eve of the opening of Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets, the second in the Harry Potter movie series. Of course, before Harry was a movie sensation, he was a literary sensation. I was a little slow in seeing the first movie inContinue Reading
Have you ever really given any thought to who develops your photos? Who sees your pictures before you do? Who might be making copies from the negatives before you even get your “originals”? If any one film is an argument for getting a digital camera, it is One Hour Photo — merelyContinue Reading
This year’s big comic book film has finally arrived. With these types of films, there are usually two types of film-goers. There are the dyed-in-the-wool comic fans who will never be happy because of something that’s not exactly as they envisioned it. Then there’s the rest of us, who goContinue Reading
The Coen Brothers have never failed to make a film that didn’t either royally entertain me or make me scratch my head and wonder, “What was that all about?” O, Brother Where Art Thou? is royally entertaining. I’m still scratching my head as to why it took me so long to seeContinue Reading
For quite a long time, the United States Government has waged a “war” on drugs that’s been full of political posturing, rhetoric and nearly fruitless effort. For all of the money spent, lives lost and destroyed, not much has changed in terms of the demand for illegal narcotics. Traffic, aContinue Reading
Stephen King’s novels have a roller-coaster like history in terms of movie adaptations. For every Misery, there is an Apt Pupil and a Maximum Overdrive. That’s not to say that every Stephen King story is a masterpiece but it is a reminder that just because his name is associated with something doesn’t necessarily meanContinue Reading