Posts Tagged ‘Jarhead’

This Week on DVD

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

It’s DVD day again… YAY (more…)

The Decade Remembered – Top Ten Movies of 2005

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

Top Ten 2005The Decade Remembered will be my series of pieces where I will do a top ten for each year from 2000 – 2009 with it ending with the complete Top Ten of the Decade to come.  After 2000, 2001 , 2002, 2003 ,2004 and now 2005: (more…)

The Hollywood Resume – Sam Mendes

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

Hollywood Resume - Sam Mendes

Sam Mendes is one of the few directors out there today who loves to examine the idea of family.  In each of his movies he loves to give us one or another version of a different family who is at a different stage in their relationship whether they’re just starting out, facing their first real crisis or at the end of the whole thing.   Mr. Mendes was (and still is) a theatre director before he became a great young film director after giving us his debut film, American Beauty (1999), which he won a best directing Oscar for. (more…)