Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street In Tim Burton’s adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s musical, there is certainly a lot to savor here: The costumes, set designs, cinematography, and overall LOOK and feel of the piece are top-notch, and then there is Johnny Depp’s performance as the title character. Having reportedly never sang publicly […]
Syriana Traffic screenwriter Stephen Gaghan’s directorial debut turns out to be a slow, horribly paced, extended diatribe against capitalism, American Neo-conservatives, and big oil corporations (which even left-wing pariah Bill O’Reilly has taken a stand against in recent years) in general. I shouldn’t have been surprised to see Steven Soderbergh’s name listed as a producer, […]
Sympathy For The Devil Revolutionary politics, whether it be The Bolsheviks in the 1910s or the more recent “Q” movement, have always differed in terms of exactly “what they want” but the goals have always been the same: to overthrow the current governmental system to install what they feel is a “better way”. In no […]
Take The Lead Basically a version of Stand And Deliver for the Dancing With The Stars crowd, this film can also be shown as what happens with Antonio Banderas when he winds up cast in a role that is perfect for him. As the real-life Pierre Dulaine, an upper-class dance teacher who volunteers to teach […]
Tales From The Crypt: Demon Knight Starting in 1989, the Tales From The Crypt series on HBO was one of the greatest breakthrough TV series in cable history, smashing the boundaries imposed by the alphabet soup networks to give us something that they never could: A TV horror anthology based upon the old, controversial EC […]
Tangled If there’s one thing that Disney has gotten right over all these years when it comes to their animated movies, it’s their depiction of female characters. From Snow White to Cinderella to Ariel to Belle to Jessica Rabbit, the Disney animators have crafted some absolutely BEAUTIFUL “dream women” and brought them to life in […]
Taps Sometimes, you might come upon a movie with a completely outlandish and wholly unrealistic premise because the process of telling the actual story itself results in opening an entire Pandora’s Box of morality questions and societal probabilties related either directly or indirectly to that very story. While rare, this type of movie does come […]
Targets “End Of An Era” type flicks (depending on the genre) usually are exercises in poignancy, melancholy, or some other kind of overly emotional hodgepodge. Horror movies (on the other hand) have never seemed to go out of style, remaining by far the most popular films of their kind deep into the home video / […]
Taxi Driver The power of movies on potentially psychotic individuals to put ideas into their minds and even worse, compel them to carry out horrific acts is a concept that is often debated and perhaps rightfully so, and just as easily dismissed as such an insane person on that level would probably have been set […]