Christmas, that time of year that brings out the child in all of us and we get to watch our childhood favorites. To many people who grew up in Britain in the early to mid-90s the Channel 4 26-minute special Father Christmas brings nostalgic memories. Based on Raymond Briggs’ illustrated novels Father Christmas and Father […]
The Interview situation has sparked a national discussion about freedom of expression and the dangers of cyber warfare in the digital age. The FBI on Friday said it believed North Korea was behind the hack attack on Sony Pictures in retaliation for the comedy that involves the assassination of the nation’s leader, Kim Jong-un. Later in […]
Alongside some little-known noir gems from 1950, there are very few releases new on DVD this week; yet all are very good films. We have chosen Pride to represent the small group as this issue’s Recommendation of the Week New Release: Pride – (Blu-ray, DVD and Instant) Trip to Italy – (Blu-ray, DVD and Instant) The Good Lie – (Blu-ray and […]
At a time of the year when most film blogs and writers are focusing on their top-10 lists, and picks for Oscar hopefuls, news surrounding the events leading up to the cancellation of The Interview have taken over. Beginning with a seemingly innocuous hacking of information from Sony’s internal servers, an all out media storm has […]
Sony Pictures have had a torrid time recently with the cyber-attack forcing them to cancel The Interview‘s worldwide release. But the show must go on and Deadline have had the exclusive that they have brought the rights to Robert Rodriguez’s planned live-action version of Fire and Ice. Fire and Ice is a cult fantasy animated […]
I once took a class in college, which looked at a number of books from the Bible through a non-religious, strictly literary lens. We studied the text as if it were Homer’s The Iliad or Tolstoy’s War and Peace looking at the elements of story, character development and so forth. When reading the text of […]
And the scandal continues. This morning, the hackers behind the now infamous Sony leaks taking place over the past few weeks, are now demanding that The Interview never be released in any shape to the public. This comes after news earlier this week that threats to national security not only caused a few major theater […]
