Defiant Success

Woody Allen's Sweet and Lowdown  is sort of different from the director's other work. I say sort of because this shares a few elem...

Just the opening moments of Jack Clayton's The Innocents  prove that this film means business. (Well, what else do you expect for a fi...

Addiction is a very ugly thing. It's painful to watch someone dig themselves into a hole they can't get out of. You can only ima...

(There'll be a slight hiatus from reviews and such for a few days. I have writing and reading to do. Oh, the plights of being a writer.)...

I'm fairly certain that Edgar Wright is slowly becoming a favorite. After all, just this summer I saw Scott Pilgrim vs. the World  and...

Ah, New York City. One of the most filmed cities in the world. It's hard to say precisely how many titles were filmed or set in the Bi...

You gotta love it when certain names in Hollywood have a very distinctive style. It makes them recognizable. Now Quentin Tarantino has p...

With Tony Scott's sudden and shocking death this past Sunday, we lost  a true visionary. I'll admit I haven't seen any of his ...

There are a number of films out there focusing on the justice system. It's either from the viewpoint of the client or the lawyer, usua...

It seems throughout the 1990s there were films that didn't earn the recognition they deserved. (Some of my favorites include Gods and ...