By Normally when you talk about a 44-year-old movie, the director and the star are mentioned in the past tense. A serious exception must be given to American Gigolo since writer-director Paul Schrader and star Richard Gere were recently on the red carpet in Cannes for their upcoming Oh, Canada. These
Blu-ray Review: Tinto Brass – Master of Erotic Cinema 2 (Collector’s Edition)
During the early ’90s when the VHS era was going strong, I’d often find myself poking through the “Foreign Film” section at The Video Bar looking for movies that wouldn’t be taught in my international cinema class. I was eager to see the European movies that played on Cinemax After
Alien: Romulus Official Trailer
In space….no one can hear you scream as 20th Century Fox releases the official trailer for the upcoming sci-fi film Alien: Romulus. View trailer below. Set between the events of Alien (1979) and Aliens (1986), the story concerns a group of young space colonizers who, while scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space
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DVD Review: Alto
The Sopranos was groundbreaking in its depiction of the Mafia. One of the more revealing storylines was when the mobster Vito Spatafore turned out to be gay and having a major crush on a short order breakfast cook he called Johnny Cakes. You didn’t see that in The Godfather. The
