Time-Life has put together a good collection of 40 songs that were playing on radios and record players back in 1967. That year the hippies and their ideas broke on through from the counterculture into the mainstream. It started in January with San Francisco’s Human Be-In and peaked in the summer, June specifically, when The ...
There is no shortage of DVD coverage in the world today. There are a plethora of media sources that pretend to be informing consumers of what’s new in the world of DVD. What this coverage mostly consists of is a list of titles that are coming out in a particular week. (Usually a far from ...
Political films are not always serious, and these 10 American President movies are a mixture of comedy and drama. Some of the movies deal with actors portraying real former American Presidents, while others are completely fictional. These American President movies either poke fun at political life, or closely portray political life. “Frost/Nixon” It is one ...
Kevin Schreck’s documentary, “Persistence of Vision” explores the odyssey of Richard Williams’ unfinished animation masterpiece, The Thief and the Cobbler. Riddled with production land-mines over the course of 3 decades and despite Williams’ notable career as a lead animator on films like “Who Framed Roger Rabbit,” his original vision was quashed. It survives only as ...
Despite radical advancements in movie technology, truth still remains stranger than fiction. “The Imposter,” for instance, revisits one of the most jaw-dropping missing person cases in recent history. Through dramatic recreation and one-on-one interviews, director Bart Layton examines the case of Nicholas Barclay, a 13-year-old boy who disappeared from San Antonio, Texas, on June 13, ...
Errol Morris is back with another fascinating film, part biography, part documentary, about a fascinating individual. His subject is Robert S. McNamara, who served from 1961 to 1968 as the Secretary of Defense under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. The film has been put together through interview sessions with McNamara, White House ...
Since the death of comedic actor Bernie Mac on August 9, a lot of people wonder what the mysterious disease was that he had. Entertainment Tonight showed archival footage of him on the set of one of his movies, wheeling an oxygen tank. Of course, for effect, they played this dramatic music as they talked ...
