Author Archive

Starring Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade and Rob Schneider is a hilarious comedy about five men who were best friends when they were young kids and now are getting together for the Fourth of July weekend to meet each others’ families for the first time.

An underground lair serves as the point of inspiration for this deeply whimsical fantasy comedy (with echoes of Jodorowsky’s Rainbow Thief) from French cause célèbre Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amélie, The City of Lost Children).

In 1634, the terrified people of a small Bavarian village watched in horror as a killer bubonic plague swept through the countryside closer and closer to them. When it finally arrived on their doorsteps, and relatives, friends and neighbours began to perish, the villagers turned to the only hope of survival they had – their God.

In 1950 a North Korean Communist army crossed the 38th Parallel to invade non-communist South Korea and so began a three-year war which tested the Cold War strategies of all the great powers and set the United States and China on a highly-dangerous collision course.

The origin of the modern marathon race may be a fanciful tale full of heroism, drama and tragedy but it is well worth telling -  if only to give heart to the hundreds of thousands of aspiring athletes who take part every year throughout the world in the most gruelling of races.

In 1960, a young man, already a legend and World Champion on racing motorcycles, turned his attention to high-performance motor car racing. Within three years he was the Formula 1 World Champion and the only man ever to hold world titles on both two and four wheels.

Every cloud, they say, has a silver lining.

And for many people in northern Europe who live around the airports which normally handle more than twenty-thousand flights per day, the cloud of dust which poured out of a volcano in Iceland in the spring 0f 2010 and threatened jet engines from the Atlantic to Russia, really brightened up their days.

A  live action comedy-adventure loosely based on the “Sorcerer’s Apprentice” segment of Disney’s Fantasia.

Set in the midst of war and political upheaval during the Taiping Rebellion in 1860s China, THE WARLORDS stars Jet Li as General Pang, who barely survives a brutal massacre of his fellow soldiers by playing dead, and joins a band of bandits led by Er Hu (Andy Lau) and Wu Yang (Takeshi Kaneshiro).

Derek Thompson is ‘The Tooth Fairy,’ a hard-charging minor league hockey player whose nickname comes from his habit of separating opposing players from their bicuspids.