For April's National Volunteer Month, I present the top ten movies that feature volunteer work. Though dominated by military volunteers, the following list is a nice selection of stories and movies.
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If anything, American Reunion is adding a little bit of surprising depth to its well-worn trail while retaining its R-rated tendencies. This latest edition of the American Pie franchise is the most John Hughes-iest of the series. There are really satisfying moments of heart to match all of the comedy and they effectively add to the experience.
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This editorial will spotlight a list of the best movie fires and the best firefighter movies.
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In honor of the opening day of the 2012 Major League Baseball season, I felt obliged, just as I did with an editorial last fall for the opening of the NFL and college football seasons, to put my reputation on the line with my picks for the best baseball movies of all-time.
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This month in 2012, just in time for the 100th anniversary of the ship's fateful maiden voyage and the 100th birthday of Paramount Pictures, Titanic has been meticulously re-mastered for a 3D re-release to movie theaters around the world.
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For this new editorial, I'm listing the most desired and long-awaited movie sequels, both past and present. To qualify for my list, the gap between the original and the present day must be greater than five years.
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In honor (or is it dishonor) of the one-year anniversary of the Japanese tsunami disaster and with the Mayan prophecy hanging over the calendar year of 2012, I've been presented with the editorial initiative entitled "Doomsday Preparations."
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To anyone who will listen, I preach the greatest love and respect of Casablanca, the 1943 Oscar winner for Best Picture from director Michael Curtiz. You might be able to name singular instances, throughout the vast history of cinema, of better ensemble acting, better war-time intrigue, better left-field star turns, better broken hearts, better dialogue, and better romance. You might. However, I challenge and dare you to find a better movie in Hollywood history that has all of those qualities working together at once. Because of the successful combination of so many outstanding qualities, Casablanca is a perfect movie to me.
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With all of the brilliant hype and buzz generated by the novel's wild success, I was expected gravitas and pathos, something on the level of Harry Potter or The Lord of the Rings. What I got was a romance worthy of Water for Elephants and shallower kid version of The Running Man if it was run by the TV people of The Truman Show.
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Let's face it. Genitalia jokes and people on drugs are funny. Cringing over homophobia and stereotypes is funny. Elaborate profanity delivered by Ice Cube's angry demeanor and Jonah Hill's constant state of nervous fluster are always going to be hilarious. 21 Jump Street puts all of those charged ingredients together better than Paula Dean combines carbohydrates and cholesterol.
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With the action-comedy release of 21 Jump Street this weekend, I couldn't help but look into my deeply educated and sarcastic opinion and taste to examine what movies are the best adaptations of television shows of all-time.
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The infinitely detailed world that Burroughs created 100 years ago in 1912 when it originally debuted as a magazine serial was transcendent, wildly inventive, and one of the major influences for George Lucas in creating Star Wars, James Cameron's Avatar world, and the science-fictional novelists that followed such as Ray Bradbury and Carl Sagan. To those gentleman, John Carter was their childhood "light bulb" discovery and fantasy, and it came in novel form, not a cartoon or a movie.
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