Universal Home Video will release a second volume of Woody Woodpecker cartoons on Tuesday. Picking up right after Volume 1, this three-disc set contains the next 45 Woody cartunes (Volume 1 covered 1940-1952). It also has 30 additional Walter Lantz cartunes, featuring characters like Chilly Willy, Andy Panda, and even has a few Lantz-era Oswald […]

I got a kick out of Richard Shepard’s last flick, The Matador, and I’ve been looking forward to his latest, The Hunting Party, for a while. Sadly, it only had a limited release and went by unnoticed. It played at the Landmark Sunshine in my street, but with all the awards films coming out at […]

What happened to Rod Lurie? He started out with an interesting doomsday thriller in 1999 (Deterrence), followed it up with the terrific political thriller The Contender in 2000, but then struck out with the Robert Redford/James Gandolfini prison flick The Last Castle a year later. He didn’t make any more films until last year’s Resurrecting […]

For the past 2 or 3 weeks, the posts here were out of order. Well, I finally was able to fix it by installing a new version of WordPress. I intend to write more regularly. But really, don’t count on it.