Defiant Success

What would it be like to live in a world where freedom of expression is no longer free? What if the very things that made us who we are be...

G.W. Pabst's Pandora's Box  provides a portrait of a woman whose life is layered with good luck and hard times. She's fully aw...

When you look at the small but extensive filmography of Sam Mendes, you can tell he's interested in stories about the everyman and the...

When we first see the title character of Luc Besson's Nikita  (or La Femme Nikita  as it's commonly called), she is clearly zoned ...

Anyone who has seen enough musicals from Hollywood's Golden Age knows you have two song-and-dance men to choose from: Fred Astaire and...

Following the end of World War II, returned soldiers were trying to escape the uncomfortable nature of everyday life. One such escape was ...

This year has been pretty good to the world of animation. Yeah, there have been a few misses earlier in the year, but titles like Brave , ...

Depicting the chaos behind the production of a film isn't something very commonly tackled among Hollywood. (There are those few titles...

In 2000, Rod Lurie released The Contender . The film revolved around the somewhat controversial nomination of a vice president candidate a...

It seems strange that Martin Scorsese, the man responsible for blood-soaked films like Goodfellas  and Raging Bull , would go and do a muc...