Director Joel Schumacher, best known for two “Batman” films has died at the age of 80, following a year-long battle with cancer. He got his start in Hollywood as a costume designer, working for directors like Herbert Ross in The Last of Sheila, Woody Allen in Sleeper and Interiors. He moved from the costume drawing…
“It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause…
“As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not” – Lester B. Pearson – Canadian politician “The trench was a horrible sight. The dead were stretched out on one side, one on top of each other six feet high” – British Captain Leeham in Malcolm Brown’s Tommy Goes To…
“I am not a Democrat because they want your money. I am not a Republican because they take your rights away.” – Watson Bryant, attorney for Richard Jewell Perhaps the time has come for a new Hollywood movie rating scale. D for documentary film that is entirely factual. D minus for documentary films that are…
In June of 1976, just over 42 years after the actual Battle of Midway, the movie Midway was released. It was a summer hit and went on to be 10th highest grossing film of that year. Now, more than four decades later, Roland Emmerich is bringing a new Midway to theaters. It opens on November…
“We’re not in Wonderland anymore Alice” – Charles Manson “My whole life has been decided by fate” – Sharon Tate The ninth film from writer/director Quentin Tarantino is Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. It draws inspiration from people and events that transpired between February and August of 1969. But it is fiction and that…
“Once you know the extent of your power, then you can learn to control it” – James McAvoy as “Charles Xavier” in X-Men: Apocalypse Is this really the end for the X-Men? This is the seventh and supposedly last film featuring the main X-Men characters, although we know that New Mutants is due out next…
June 6, 1944. What is now commonly referred to as “D-Day.” The WWII Allies launch Operation Overlord. Over 150,000 Allied troops were involved in “Operation Overlord.” As is the case with most major historical events, we’ve seen D-Day as the main plot or an important event in a number of major motion pictures. With the…
Movies about football have been around almost as long as the game itself. The first professional football player signed a contract to be paid to play in 1892. In 1921, Two Minutes to Go was the first movie about the game. Here, in no particular order are our 10 favorite films primarily about football. 2004…
In 2013 I was privileged to attend a screening of The Brass Teapot and interview its director and co-writer, Ramaa Mosley. Now she has a new film, Lost Child out and that gave me the opportunity to catch up with this very talented woman. REVIEW: ‘Lost Child’ is something worth finding TailSlate – Nearly six…
