my film journal

Set in 1858, two years before the US Civil War, the story deals with the brutal treatment of slaves in the American Deep South, much the ...

2013 is shaping up to be the year of the Fairy Tale. A number of film adaptations of popular children’s tales are coming soon to theaters...

Disney animation is back in excellent form with Wreck-It Ralph , thanks to Pixar alumnus John Lasseter acting as Executive producer and th...

J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and it's sequels, The Lord of the Rings trilogy were legendary epic fantasies known all over the world l...

Be warned, this is not your familiar cute and cuddly, sugar coated Disney version of the well-known fairy tale, Snow White and the Seven D...

The Vietnam War was a chaotic hallucinogenic haze of Huey helicopters and jungle warfare. Young and frustrated American G.I.s lost and exh...