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Have you ever noticed how Hollywood likes to put out movies of similar material, almost at the same time? Sometimes,  it’s just a huge coincidence; there might just be a lot of interest in the subject at the time. However, when you start to see more than one picture in under a year about Wyatt [...]

When you think of the term “period piece,” what usually comes to mind is Jane Austen, powdered wigs, and petticoats.  Many films depict these distant eras with a beloved sort of detachment– these eras only remembered otherwise in written documents and various memoirs. But what of the eras that many, to this day, can recall [...]

Big as America’s military hubris may be, Vietnam was a terrible failure, also one which has been given unyielding film treatment.  In hindsight, there’s no denying that the bodies which lied needlessly in waste were in vein and for a cause too idealistic to warrant such entirely-symbolic bloodshed.  That said, you don’t blame the cattle [...]

In the 80 or so years of its existence, the Academy Awards has made some poor choices. Dances With the Wolves over Goodfellas? Bleh. And try finding someone who could justify The Greatest Show On Earth or Around the World In 80 Days winning- let alone getting nominated. The list goes on. We know what [...]

Some of the most overlooked personalities in the film industry are the men and women who sit in the director’s chair.  While most of the public is content with engaging themselves with the off-screen antics of actors and actresses, it is often the directors who outshine their fellow artists in terms of eccentricities and sheer [...]

No matter how many millions of dollars the studios spend on a movie, mistakes or bloopers are inevitable. Most of these mistakes are continuity errors or something may be visible that shouldn’t be visible. Some pedantic moviegoers watch out for them like hawks and pounce. To be honest, most of us don’t even notice until [...]

You will notice an anti-war stance with this list. John Wayne is noticeable by his absence! The films have a common mission and that is to tell the truth as the writers and directors see it. Before I receive a deluge of comments on why ‘Saving Private Ryan’ isn’t included, I think that the first [...]