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Philadelphia Film Festival Review: LUCKY NUMBER SLEVIN

April 1, 2006 Rich Drees

Slevin (Josh Hartnett) is not having a good day. Observing that bad things happen to him in threes, he has been fired from his job, evicted from his condemned apartment, found his girlfriend cheating on [click for more]

Robert Towne On Los Angeles’ Dusty Past

March 17, 2006 Rich Drees

Some directors have become inexorably linked with certain locales. Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen have explored their own aspects of Manhattan, while Barry Levinson and John Waters have returned to Baltimore time and again for [click for more]

Action And Acting With Milla Jovovich

March 1, 2006 Rich Drees

Milla Jovovich appears to be anything but the stone-cold action heroines she plays in the movies. It is a week before the premier of her latest film, Ultraviolet, and Jovovich is on stage at the [click for more]

SUPERMAN: The Famous Studios Cartoons

January 22, 2006 Rich Drees

(A note on run times: The run times from each cartoon are taken from one of the many public domain DVD releases currently on the market. It is possible that they may be off by [click for more]

SUPERMAN: The Fleischer Cartoons

January 22, 2006 Rich Drees

(A note on run times: The run times from each cartoon are taken from one of the many public domain DVD releases currently on the market. It is possible that they may be off by [click for more]

The SUPERMAN Cartoons

January 22, 2006 Rich Drees

Perhaps the most recognizable character of 20th century popular literature is Superman. Rocketed to Earth as a baby to escape the destruction of his homeworld, Superman grows up to discover that his alien physiognomy has [click for more]

Hitman On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown: Writer/Director Richard Shepard Talks About THE MATADOR

January 5, 2006 Rich Drees

It sounds like the set up to a Borscht Belt comedian’s routine. “A hitman and a traveling businessman walk into a bar…” And while there are some darkly comic moments in writer/director Richard Shepard’s The [click for more]

Library Of Congress Announces Annual Film Registry Additions

December 27, 2005 Rich Drees

From documenting significant news events of the early 20th century to breakthroughs in computer generated entertainment, the 25 motion pictures added today to the Library of Congress’s National Film Registry span a century of cinematic [click for more]

Script Review: ET II Story Treatment

December 25, 2005 Rich Drees

Story Treatment by Steven Spielberg and Melissa Mathison Even before the summer of 1982 was half over, it had become obvious that Steven Spielberg’s E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial was well on its way to becoming not [click for more]

Review: KING KONG

December 14, 2005 Rich Drees

“No one cry when Jaws die. But when the monkey die, people gonna cry.” So stated producer Dino De Laurentiis in an October 1976 issue of Time Magazine prior to the release of his remake [click for more]