Lots of people hate to be scared, and for good reason. Horror movies today are so realistic and many of them play up to that whole ‘based on a true story’ idea so well that they could very well be real. I know people who refuse to watch the trailer […]

Everyone in the movie industry jumps for joy when their film gets a second installment. The trouble is that many of these installments should never have happened. In this article I will be looking at film sequels that probably shouldn’t have happened, but at the same time, are worth a […]

Samuel  Katarro introduces a musical project by the name of King Of The Opera. The Tuscan musician, better known as Alberto Mariotti, brings you ‘Nothing Outstanding.’ The album released less than a year ago, and even though I’m a little late on this one, I’m fortunate enough to get my hands […]

Some of you may have seen or heard about the new TV show that aired on Tuesday – The Mindy Project. Personally, I love this TV show. It isn’t based around usual stereotypical generalization that passes for television these days. It’s witty, sassy, and all for girl power! It is […]

When Marlon Brando told his father, Marlon Snr., he was going to make his first movie the older man told his son: ‘Take a look in the mirror, and tell me who’s going to want to look at your ugly mug on the screen.’ Brando’s relationship with his father, and […]

It began with a Pulitzer Prize-winning series of articles that appeared in the New York Sun newspaper in 1948. Malcolm Johnson was the journalist determined to expose the corruption, graft and racketeering in his seminal work – ‘Crime on the Waterfront’. It was hard going, especially when he came up against […]

“You shut your mouth when you’re talking to me!” is a line we hear minutes into the 2005 comedy great that is Wedding Crashers. The line comes from an angry lady who is trying to settle divorce papers with her husband who sits across the table. Also sitting at this […]

It wasn’t the first time ‘realism’ hit the cinema screens. However, ‘On the Waterfront’ (1954) was the first major commercial and critical breakthrough of its kind. The very term – ‘social realism’ – was first coined in the fledgling Soviet Union, after the 1917 Russian Revolution, to describe such films as ‘October’, ‘Battleship […]