December 2nd, 2020 by Adam Toroni-Byrne
Paramount Presents is fast becoming a favorite catalog collection for me. Some releases are out of the box while others are lovingly reissued in a more deluxe way. While sometimes the features leave a little to be desired, often the new masters make the discs well worth the purchase. With Eddie Murphy’s classics Trading Places […]
July 12th, 2018 by Gerard Iribe
A harrowing drama set during the Salvadoran Civil War, Salvador is a one of director Oliver Stone’s most underrated films, a thrilling and violent look at the chaos of war as seen through the lens of an amoral photojournalist. In 1980, young men, women and children are being brutally killed in a bloody civil war […]
December 8th, 2017 by Brandon Peters
Twin Peaks was a true cult sensation. The short lived show is probably the biggest such television program since the original Star Trek. It only had life for 2 seasons and almost 30 episodes. Fandom never died on the show, it delivered a film prequel by Lynch himself and was one of the few televisions […]
November 29th, 2017 by Aaron Neuwirth
I’ve had a tough time processing Wonder Wheel. It has nothing to do with writer/director Woody Allen as a person or even the idea of analyzing multiple “awards season” movies at the same time. It has a lot more to do with the familiarity of Allen’s ideas matched to his choices as a visual filmmaker. […]
May 13th, 2011 by Gerard Iribe
What is a “cougar,” besides being a large cat of the feline variety that will rip you to shreds? Well, as defined in the latest edition of the Urban Dictionary; An older woman who frequents clubs in order to score with a much younger man. The cougar can be anyone from an overly surgically altered […]