By: Carl Mandosa Originally, Duck Soup's release was anything but inspiring. As one of the last films the Marx Brothers did with Paramount, it was received with shunned indifference. You might be wondering why, considering it being the Marx Brothers, the Golden Boys of comedy. There are certainly theories…
By: David Tin Punching the Clown is one of those uniquely genuine comedies and semi-autobiographical films that go underrated and unappreciated. Not only cinematically compelling, Punching the Clown is a hysterical commentary on the lies that compose our world, especially places like Los Angeles. It tells the story of…
By: Daniel Mitchoff While watching Waiting for "Superman" one thing becomes blatantly clear: David Guggenheim spent a lot more money on the movie than the research that went into the movie. Yeah, the basic premise of a failing school system with the United States is repeatedly emphasized within modern…
By: Stephanie Pulsck The Way Back is a surprisingly good film. It debuted back in 2010, it stars relatively unknown performers (other than Colin Farrell) along with relatively unknown crew, though some might know director Peter Weir's most famous works, Dead Poet Society and The Truman Show, among others.…
By: Daniel Amston The Price of Pleasure is a documentary examining the effects that the commercial porn industry has had, and will continue to have, on our society. It examines not only the general undertones of exploitation, manipulation, and degradation featured in many mainstream porn films but also the…
Spitting Game: The College Hook Up Culture opens Pandora’s Box and takes a penetrating look into the social lives of students. Hooking Up, described as a drunken, no strings attached sexual encounter has eclipsed traditional dating on college campuses across the nation. Spitting Game is a provocative and…
By OcJim I just finished watching the 1970 Western, Chisum with John Wayne, probably one of the better westerns of years past. The characters are all icons of western legend, as was John Wayne himself. One thing about westerns is that in the end, the good always seem to…
Dear Friends, I have good news and bad news. The good news: is that This is Where We Take Our Stand, a film about the Iraq Veterans Against the War Winter Soldier/Iraq & Afghanistan Investigation, has now been distributed to every PBS station in the country for broadcast in…
By: Stanley Wicker This is both a movie and book review. The book, published in 1999 and originally titled Disco Bloodbath: A Fabulous but True Tale of Murder in Clubland, was written by James St. James, a celebutante during the 1980s and 1990s who also was a part of…
By Jim Hoover I have waited so long for an American drama where the people win in the end. Conservative gangs, marauders from high places, have victimized the citizens for so long. Reagan rode in out of the tinsel town sunset, a likeable cowboy but flawed by ideas pushed…