Obviously the title leaves much to be desired, but in every other possible way, Anton Chekhov’s The Duel is everything a costume drama should be—filled with stellar acting by winsome British…
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Real life on again/off again couple Drew Barrymore and Justin Long team up in this sweet romantic comedy that realistically depicts the good, the bad, and the ugly about long distance…
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Grindhouse is a term used to describe a movie theater that specialized in showing Exploitation movies, primarily in the 1970s. That type of movie was often made on the cheap, and…
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Hit men and assassins are a dime a dozen in Hollywood. They are primarily used as an incidental plot device. The assassin’s lifestyle is typically portrayed as being glamorous. There are…
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I pretty much watch any horror movie I can get my hands on, and have been doing so for most of my adult life. I can only recall a handful of…
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As writing students learn in Fiction 101, Rule #1 (well, maybe it’s rule #2 or #16) of crafting a good story is never to build a story around the revelation of…
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So XBox Live Arcade brings the latest Tomb Raid— Oops. Still getting used to the title change. Let’s try again. During Microsoft’s Summer of Arcade, the XBox received a five week…
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The 88-year-old Alain Resnais’s latest film, WILD GRASS, shows him remaining true, all these decades later, to the principles of the French “Nouvelle Vague” of which he was a leading proponent: …