Only the second feature film by director Roman Polanski, "Repulsion" already demonstrates clearly that he's a master at filmmaking. After a horrible childhood--a Polish Jew, he hid alone in the forest during World War II to avoid capture by Nazis...
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"It's so horribly sad," says one character, "how is it I feel like laughing?" In a sense, replacing "sad" with "suspenseful," this could be said about "North by Northwest" itself. Alfred Hitchcock and his screenwriter Ernest Lehman intended it as...
Cormac McCarthy took the title of his novel "No Country for Old Men" from the first line of William Butler Yeates' "Sailing to Byzantium," a poem about old age. The book, and movie, are not about old age, but partly...
In several of the many extras on this loaded Blu-ray package, it's claimed that more people have seen "The Wizard of Oz" than any other movie, due to its several theatrical reissues, the many releases on video, and countless showings...
In the 60+ years since the release of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," there have been so many animated feature films that it's difficult to realize how big a risk Walt Disney and his company were taking, how revolutionary...
"Nights in Rodanthe" is a well-acted, competently-written movie shot in an almost impossibly-beautiful but ruggedly rustic house on the shore of one of North Carolina's "Outer Banks," not far from Cape Hatteras National Seashore. This is an area that's been...
Video-on-demand services are becoming quite the commodity in home entertainment products. Some people contend that VOD is poised to dethrone the physical disc medium as the go-to method for content delivery, at least in the world of video rentals. An...
