Original US release date: December 9, 1983 Production budget: $25,000,000 Worldwide gross: $65,884,703 There can be any number of reasons why a given film may go on to live forever in the public consciousness, achieving legendary status. Sometimes, it's due to the story. Sometimes, it's the property. Sometimes, a film may represent a giant leap... Continue Reading →
Original US release date: June 19, 1992 Production budget: $80,000,000 Worldwide gross: $266,822,354 Following the successful reinvention of the Batman character by Frank Miller in DC Comics' The Dark Knight Returns series, director Tim Burton achieved the same result in the world of live-action entertainment when he released Batman in 1989 to massive audience enthusiasm and... Continue Reading →
Original US release date: June 12, 1987 Production budget: $22,000,000 Worldwide gross: $63,766,510 George Miller's The Witches of Eastwick is a film I remember hearing quite a bit about as a child, but my viewing of the film in preparation for this column was the first time I ever actually watched it. Despite having heard so... Continue Reading →
I've mentioned it before, but I love myself an old-fashioned locked-room mystery. I love them enough that I'm staying up late to see Murder on the Orient Express and then write this post, even though I have to get up early in the morning in order to catch a flight to Rhode Island. I've never read... Continue Reading →
"As I left the theater, tonight, the guy in front of me turned back to me and said, 'That was stupid.' What did I say? I said . . ."
