Your Independent Movie Guide
AGENT WILL GRAHAM Despite his place as the hero, there's a dark side to FBI Agent Will Graham. He's complex, ambiguous, nuanced. Not the usual dullard...
Manhunter (1986) 4 stars Based on the Novel "Red Dragon" by Thomas Harris Written and Directed by Michael Mann Starring William L. Petersen, Tom Noonan,...
They’ve already started lining up in Los Angeles. On April 2, “Star Wars” fans started queuing at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in LA for the May 19...
BOOTLEG FILES 071: "Mr. Arkadin" (1955 Orson Welles offering from his European years). LAST SEEN: Available for online viewing at CinemaNow.com. AMERICAN...
The American motion picture industry began with Thomas Edison and his brigade of inventive technicians during the final years of the 19th century. Edison...
GIVE IN TO YOUR ANGER Think about how rarely you across someone who honestly hates “Star Wars.” I know, I know, every group has some crank who claims...
Unless you know too much about movies or you are 100 years old, you probably never heard of the 1929 musical extravaganza "Rio Rita." In a way, that's a...
And they said the movie musical was dead. To be sure, the genre's looked better, but not since before Vietnam began to get ugly. Spontaneous song and dance...
Campbell Scott is one of my favorite actors. I first came across him in 1992’s "Singles" and have followed him in everything I could since then, most...
An informative bit of cinematic archeology that also provides insight into vintage Iron Curtain ideology, “I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth” is a...