A film fan since he first saw that Rebel Blockade Runner fleeing the massive Imperial Star Destroyer at the tender age of 8 and a veteran freelance journalist with twenty-five years experience writing about film and pop culture. He is a member of the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle.
There are many films out there that have probably been unfairly lambasted by either critics or the passage of time. For me, one of those films is the 1980 Dino De Laurentiis produced comic-strip adaptation [click for more]
Sacha Baron Cohen’s comic creation Borat, the Kazakhstani reporter with a penchant for asking inappropriate questions, has not only attracted enough people to theaters this past weekend to make Borat: Cultural Learnings On America For [click for more]
In the Middle Ages, sometimes the only person in a royal court who could speak the plain, blunt truth was the court jester. Able to couch his criticism in jokes, the jester could say things [click for more]
Wondering if you’re living near one of the 168 or so theaters screening the new 3-D version of Time Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas? Find out below! UNITED STATES ALABAMA Birmingham: Carmike Summit 16 Hoover: Rave [click for more]
The new film from Barry Levinson, Man Of The Year, has much in common with the politicians it purports to satirize. They both promise you one thing, but once they have your vote/ticket money, they [click for more]
Back during Hollywood’s Golden Age, studios regularly raided the boards of Broadway for source material for their films. However, with the recent success Mel Brooks had in bringing his hit 1968 comedy The Producers to [click for more]
While Gilliam spent a majority of his Question and Answer session at Manhattan’s Film Forum discussing Time Bandits (as detailed here), he did touch upon a few other topics worth sharing. On the future of [click for more]
“I guess this is when I apologize for the film you are about to see,” jokes director Terry Gilliam prior to a recent screening of his fantasy Time Bandits (1981) at New York City’s Film [click for more]
If you happened to catch the new documentary Al Franken: God Spoke at last spring’s Tribecca Film Fest, than you are among the privileged few who got to see a slightly different cut of the [click for more]