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G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

(Allison Rose) 28/07/2021 16:09 EDT
The year was 1923. The place was Providence, Rhode Island. The event was the creation of Hassenfeld Brothers, a textile company created by three brothers, Henry, Hillel, and Herman. In 1942 the company had transitioned to making toys and in 1964 they created an "action figure" called G.I. Joe. Originally, G.I. Joe ... Read More

Snatch

(Allison Rose) 21/07/2021 09:40 EDT
The year was 1998. Writer/director Guy Ritchie (Sherlock Holmes) released his first feature film - Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels - about a group of friends who pool their money to play in a high stake's poker game. Two years later, his sophomore movie, Snatch, received a lukewarm to favorable reception from critics but garnered p... Read More

Almost Famous Steelbook

(Allison Rose) 14/07/2021 09:30 EDT
Writer, producer, director, journalist, and actor Cameron Crowe was born in 1957 in Palm Springs, California. He skipped kindergarten as well as two grades in elementary school setting in motion a life full of overachievement. By the time Crowe graduated high school, at the age of fifteen, he had already been writing articles for local ... Read More

Space Jam

(Allison Rose) 08/07/2021 11:14 EDT
In 1988, Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future) directed a movie that changed the world of animation called Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Combining live-action footage with animation was a new concept that stunned and enthralled audiences and critics alike. Four years later another genre-mixing movie, Cool World, brought a darker and more matu... Read More

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 29/06/2021 14:48 EDT
It is rather amazing that British author Roald Dahl (James and the Giant Peach) wrote children's novels for a living because his works were usually dark and often rather morbid. Adults were generally the villains in his stories and the undertones in his writing lent themselves to a lack of sentimentality. In 1964 Dahl wrote a childr... Read More

Raiders of the Lost Ark 4K Ultra HD Review

Indiana Jones 4-Movie Collection

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 15/06/2021 09:33 EDT
Back in 1977 George Lucas (American Graffiti) created a science fiction/outer space movie called Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. It instantly became a classic, spawned one of the greatest franchises that is still around to this day, and made icons of the cast. Between the fifth and sixth episodes of Star Wars, Lucas wrote another acti... Read More

Tomb Raider: The Cradle Of Life

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 02/06/2021 10:00 EDT
When Lara Croft: Tomb Raider became a major motion picture back in 2001, fans of the video game were eager to head to the theater to watch one of their favorite characters truly come to life. Though panned by critics, the movie eventually made two hundred and seventy-five million dollars worldwide, almost doubling its production budget. ... Read More

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 01/06/2021 12:36 EDT
In the last thirty years, video games have become a multi-billion-dollar industry. Of course, that means at some point, they would probably get the feature film treatment. For Tomb Raider, that became a reality in 2001 when a relatively unknown Angelina Jolie (Eternals) starred in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. The highly anticipated action-a... Read More

My Fair Lady

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 29/05/2021 18:36 EDT
In 1913, George Bernard Shaw (Saint Joan) wrote a play entitled Pygmalion. It later was adapted into a musical and in 1964 it became a feature film. My Fair Lady, starring Audrey Hepburn (Breakfast at Tiffany's) and Rex Harrison (Dr. Doolittle), garnered critical and audience acclaim and had gone on to win eight Academy Awards including... Read More

Super 8

(Allison Skornick-Rose) 24/05/2021 13:10 EDT
When J.J. Abrams (Star Wars Episode VIII: The Force Awakens) was sixteen years old, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial came out in movie theaters. Looking at Abrams' career, it is hard to imagine he wasn't influenced by the Spielberg film. Fast forward, almost thirty years, and Abrams wrote a script about a group of kids that accidental... Read More