The idea of people doing whatever needs to be done in order to make money and provide for their families is a common trope in novels, television and movies. Usually, though, this takes the form of someone entering into prostitution, selling drugs or doing something else that’s illegal/unethica...

The problem with “unfilmmable” pieces of literature is that they usually wind up getting filmed anyway. Everyone, as late as 1999, said the Lord of the Rings trilogy was unfilmmable because of the fantastic characters that inhabited the story and, indeed, the scope of the story itself. E...

When a single man goes up against a faceless, all powerful enemy - whether it’s a government or a company or some other sort of organization - it always makes for at least decent drama. We all like to think of ourselves as being able to see past through the wool that “the man” trie...

It’s always a problem when movies are made in one era and viewed in another certain aspects of the society and culture that are portrayed in the film wind up not ringing quite right with contemporary audiences. So the attitudes and behaviors of, say, the playboy culture portrayed in An Affair ...

Every year a handful of movies are released that were made years and years ago. Sometimes films wind up finishing production and then the studio that owns it doesn’t know what to do with it, or it winds up being part of a library that’s acquired by another studio or something like that. ...

Now that Hollywood has, over the course of just about four weeks, finally met its “Nazi movie” quota for 2008 and all the other serious-minded awards bait movies have been released it’s time to turn our attention to lighter fare. And a Bride Wars shall lead us. Bride Wars tells the...

One of the key compliments that was paid to 300 when it was released a couple years ago was that the visual style of the film, through the use of computer graphics that created virtual sets, almost exactly matched that of the source graphic novel. It’s by no means the only movie to do so - the...

There’s little not to love about period dramas from either a studio or talent point of view. They’re pretty easy to market (just show a bunch of old cars and other similar items) and they’re instantly attractive to talent because they have a high tendency to result in award nominat...

Nothing like the third time to the well, right? The Punisher is a comic book character that has not had an easy time translating from the page to the screen. Originally portrayed by Dolph Lundgren in 1989, the movie was alright but didn’t do a great job at actually telling any sort of interest...

The campaign for The Dark Knight, the second movie in the newest iteration of the Batman franchise, has a tough act to follow. As I’ve stated time and time again, the push for Batman Begins in 2005 is one of my favorite campaigns I’ve ever analyzed in my time in seriously reviewing movie...