In the past all movies were made for the big screen because studios could only bring a certain amount of movies to theaters each year. After they left the big screen they would go straight to video and cable. Now things are much more different than they were in the past. VHS’s are nearly dead […]
Solaris, both Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 original and Steven Soderbergh’s 2002 re-make, is a film that truly tests the limits of motion picture as a medium.
In my judgment, the aesthetic G-forces created by pushing the envelope of the cinematic medium is more apparent in Tarkovsky’s original, which is in a way also a testimony to Soderbergh’s […]
I am astonished at the impact that that Jo Frost, TV’s Super Nanny was having on parents of young children. A quick show of hands at any of my presentations for parents of young children indicates that one out of every two parents has watched the show at least enough to be familiar with her […]
After theWorld War I and until the arising of the Nazism at the beginning of the 1930s, Germany was the birthplace of a new movie style based in the stylistic features of the expressionist movement such as the use of the chiaroscuro, oneiric atmospheres and exaggerated angles and compositions. The exact birth date of this […]
Why have your morning coffee at a chain? When you can have a ”taste of the mob” at Caffe Palermo. Housed in a building formerly owned by Al Capone, the Chicago mob boss himself. You will find posters of “Blackstone’, the Vito Brancato PBS film about the original plan to assassinate JFK […]
A unique and different kind of TV action series, MacGyver made its television premiere in the Fall of 1985 to widespread fanfare. Audiences immediately responded to the title character and his unusual penchant for turning everyday items like chewing gum and paperclips into elaborate life-saving contraptions. In this way, it maintained a slight resemblance to […]
A smashing success for the ever-surprising WB network, Dawson’s Creek is just one of a number of original hit series cranked out by WB executives in the past several years. Joining shows like Angel (1999), Gilmore Girls (2000), and Smallville (2001), Dawson’s Creek is the brainchild of writer Kevin Williamson who, it is said, modeled […]