Turning a comic book into a feature film is no easy task, as many Hollywood studios can certainly attest. When Golden Harvest, Hong Kong’s largest film studio, and special-effects company Centro teamed up to use one of Hong Kong’s best-selling comic [...]
When it was released theatrically – appropriately on Independence Day, July 4, 1996 – Roland Emmerich’s science fiction action film "Independence Day" quickly became a box office sensation. Although the film does have its flaws, [...]
’Snow Falling on Cedars’ is a film, which is based on a prize-winning novel by David Guterson. It has a very serious, and detailed plot, which gets somehow lost in the lush camerawork by director Scott Hicks. The film takes place in the Pacific [...]
Satisfying as well as infuriating, the movies of Mel Brooks invariably swing between affectionate parody ("Young Frankenstein") and vulgar spoofs ("Blazing Saddles"). Yet he is not afraid to sprinkle in commentary about the human [...]
Disney continues their monthly ’Gold Collection’ DVD releases with 1995’s ’Pocahontas’. As with the other titles in the ’Gold Collection’, ’Pocahontas’ offers a mixed bag as far as overall quality and bonus features. The film itself is [...]
China has a very rich and intriguing history, much of which is either unknown to most Western people, or so bewildering that most people simply lose track of who was who and who did what when. Columbia TriStar Home Video has now prepared a beautiful DVD [...]
Cliches run amok in the newly released horror thriller, ’Dead of Night’. (The film was released as ’Lighthouse’ in the UK, but it got a new title for its American video debut.) The film plays like a tribute to John Carpenter, as it combines [...]
"Shaft" is one of the few action thrillers that managed to capture fans of traditional thrillers and those of urban films at the same time. The film walks a thin line and succeeds in taking viewers on ride into New York’s Harlem, where the [...]
Let’s get this straight from the start, ’Legionnaire’ is not your typical Jean-Claude Van Damme action flick featuring endless mano a mano fights and more high kicks than a line of Can Can dancers. What you get instead is a great desert adventure in [...]
After having rather unsuccessfully tried to wet his feet in more comedic roles, in 1993, actor Sylvester Stallone decided to return to the action roots that made him a Hollywood superstar. The vehicle that should take him back into the throne he had held [...]
