Turning a Bad Day Into a Good Day
There are some days that it just seems like everything is conspiring against you. And on those days, every minute seems to bring another setback or disappointment. Whether it’s losing your job or getting knocked down in the subway station, we need ways to nullify the stressful or unpleasant events of our worst days. For [...]
Stiller Has More Range than Meets the Eye
With a father and mother who were ingrained in the Hollywood atmosphere, it seems natural that Ben Stiller would join the ranks of showbiz stardom himself. Ben Stiller movies are known as being raunchy films for adult audiences, like “There’s Something About Mary” and “Tropic Thunder.” In actuality, Stiller has a large resume of children’s [...]
Classic Movie Nostalgia
For years film was an avenue for people to tell stories and give insight to a culture, society or set of ideas. As with most media today, movies have become more superficial and traded substance for marketability. Now, instead of character and plot development, most movies are simply two-hour-long special effects marathons.
Evidence of this trend [...]
America’s Rom-Com Sweetheart
Before Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gossling captured the hearts and minds of sentimentalists in “The Notebook,” and way before anybody had ever heard of a cosmo-swilling foursome that chews up shoes and spits out men, there was another kind of American romantic comedy. And if it was filmed in the late ’80s or early ’90s, [...]
From SNL to Big-Budget Movies, Ferrell Shines On
Will Ferrell is a shining example of talent overpowering the vague idea of “star power.” Looking at Ferrell, you could easily believe he’s just the aging frat guy from down the street. While it’s true that he honed his improvisational skills as a member of the Groundlings comedy troupe, Ferrell made his true breakthrough as [...]
Makin’ Whoopi Part of Your DVD Collection
Whoopi Goldberg has been such a mainstay in the American movie scene that it’s hard to believe she’s only been appearing on the big screen since the mid ’80s. She has since gone on to dabble in standup comedy, starring vehicles and even dramatic roles. In fact, her very first performance was a memorable and [...]
Tom Hanks Movies
Tom Hanks movie career spans across three decades and he worked in television before achieving success as a dramatic actor. Tom Hanks movies include the title role in Forrest Gump, Sheriff Woody in Pixar’s Toy Story, and Chuck Noland in Cast Away. He won back-to-back Best Actor Academy Awards, in 1993 for Philadelphia and in [...]
Enduring Star of the Silent Pictures
Even though he made his mark during the early days of cinema – before the advent of “talkies” or movies with sound – Charlie Chaplin remains among the most revered Hollywood stars. The actor was born and raised in England, the son of two music hall performers. He adjusted quickly to the life of a [...]
More than Just a Funnyman
Like so many successful comedians before him, Adam Sandler cut his teeth on the sketch-comedy institution “Saturday Night Live.” He worked alongside such hilarious cohorts as David Spade and Chris Farley, eventually moving on to an acting career that’s still going strong. Although he had traded in silly juvenilia and toilet humor from the beginning, [...]
The Western Genre and Its Shining Star
August 28, 2009 by DVD-Me
Filed under Movies, Western Movies
By the 1940s, the American film industry had internalized a crucial part of our nation’s history – the settlement of the Wild West – turned it into a familiar movie genre. The tropes of westerns are familiar to us all by now. There were shootouts at the OK Corral, duels in the midday sun and [...]
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