In recent years movies have mainly focused on either superheroes or reboots/remakes of older franchises. There’s really nothing wrong with that, since we’ve always had different sets of popular trends in the past, such as Sci-Fi mania in the 50’s or say the Disaster films in the mid 90’s. But […]
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Many years before I discovered such films as Akira Kurosawa’s The Seven Samurai, Sanjuro and Yojimbo, the 1980 NBC TV epic based on James Clavell’s novel SHOGUN was my introduction to legendary actor Toshiro Mifune, the world of ancient Japanese culture and the samurai. Longtime fans of this classic 547 […]
In early October, Alfonso Cuarón’s space drama Gravity was on everyone’s lips as a shoe-in at the upcoming Oscars. It was king of the box office throughout the month and it seemed impossible to meet someone who wasn’t raving about how great the film is. In the past few weeks, […]
The Eye of Bill “The Butcher” As Bill The Butcher (Daniel Day Lewis) stands in the cold snow, the camera cuts in to an extreme close up of his evil glass eye which features the image of an American eagle. Gangs of New York: Being a longtime fan of Scorsese, […]