By Chris Pandolfi All-American Propaganda The deeper you look into the making of Act of Valor, the more appalling it becomes. It’s not a war film, but a recruitment video – commissioned by the Navy’s Special Warfare Command as an initiative to increase the sign-up rate for the Navy SEALs. Hired to direct were Mike McCoy and Scott Waugh, former stuntmen and producers of sports documentaries. In 2007, both were   Read More ...

By Nick B Lang To celebrate the release of Star Wars in 3D I’d thought I’d go into a little known history of the Sith and Jedi’s weapons. A Jedi’s weapon, “Not as clumsy or random as a blaster. An elegant weapon.” The weapon consists of a blade of pure plasma emitting from the hilt and suspended in a force containment field. The field contains the immense heat of the   Read More ...

By Crista White Hypothetically speaking, if you were to wake up from a coma and not remember anything about the last 4 years of your life, including the person you are married to, it would be a frightening and confusing ordeal. Of course, if the person claiming to be your spouse looked like Channing Tatum, there’s a distinct possibility you might be tempted to just go with it, although I   Read More ...

By Chris Pandolfi We have already learned that Johnny Blaze (Nicholas Cage) sold his soul to the Devil to become the Ghost Rider, a demonic bounty hunter who takes on the appearance of a flaming skeleton in a leather jacket. He rides a motorcycle, also flaming, and carries with him a chain which he uses as a weapon. About midway through Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, we learn that his   Read More ...

A Literary Story for Non-Literary Audiences This is going to sound crazy, but when I originally saw the trailer for Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, I had no idea it was a sequel to 2008′s Journey to the Center of the Earth. Perhaps I would have known this had I been aware of Jules Verne’s novel Mysterious Island, but apart from my days as an English major and a brief   Read More ...

By Frank B. Novak You’re at home with your wife or your girlfriend on Valentine’s Day and she wants to see a good movie. What should you put on your DVD player? Here is my top 10 romantic movies for a Valentine’s evening. 1- Kate and Leopold A duke travels through time from New York in 1876 to the present and falls in love with a career woman in the   Read More ...

By Joel Massie Co-Author: Mike A. Massie How many times have we seen government conspiracy action films with double agents, microchips, and rogue operatives running rampant? Well, here’s one more. Safe House offers almost nothing we haven’t seen before, though it does still deliver its fair share of thrills. The South African location, Denzel Washington’s duplicitous dialogue, and the intense car chases help to coax you into forgetting about the   Read More ...

By Jennie G Carr Can you remember your first flight? Julie Dawn told me about hers, which was to Munich in 1971, on the way to filming ‘Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory’. She was 13 and had been cast as Veruca Salt in this now iconic movie. She recalled the mini salt and peppers sets, and the Marvel milk. This was swiftly followed by the discovery of duvets, rather   Read More ...

By Alan To Roger Corman is an American director and producer who was responsible for low budget science-horror movies in the 1950s. He is most famous for his 1960s films – which often starred Vincent Price – based on the stories of Edgar Allan Poe. Corman was born in Los Angeles in 1926. He studied English Literature for a term at Oxford after graduating from Stanford in Engineering. Despite the   Read More ...

By Sarah A Manchester Getting an education is very important in today’s society, so important; it has been the topic for a lot of movies. There are some movies out there about college that are better than others, of course that also depends on your personal preference on movie genres. There are all types of movie genres about college like horror, comedy, drama, romance, there are even documentaries on the   Read More ...