It would be difficult to find someone who doesn’t know the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Jacob Marley, and…
Author: Mark Ziobro
Mark Ziobro
Mark is a lifetime film lover and founder and Chief Editor of The Movie Buff. His favorite genres are horror, drama, and independent. He misses movie rental stores and is always on the lookout for unsung movies to experience.
From its opening frame, John Favreau’s 2003 effort “Elf” works its way into your heart, even though, on the surface, it…
Moviegoer’s love of the action hero just won’t die, and there’s no one more directly responsible than Sylvester Stallone. Indeed,…
I’ve always been a fan of independent films. They offer some of the cleanest forms of cinema, the brightest emotion,…
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Two youths are wrongly accused of murder and call a family-friend-lawyer to defend them, and the result is this, 1992’s…
In a film full of lonely shots, perhaps the most solemn is a fade out of an unused tricycle as…
At the beginning of “Pretty Woman” we have a business tycoon who can’t drive a sports car and a hooker…
Films are made up of scenes. “Joe” has powerful ones, and then it has ones that wander and get a…
The sin of “Hellraiser” is that it offers up a sadistic premise that it doesn’t deliver. Decidedly, the film’s opening is…