The love for opera, determination and a degree of obsession is what defines Anchor Bay’s latest release, "Fitzcarraldo". As much as these elements determine the film’s main character, they also manifest themselves in the film’s creator, [...]
Columbia TriStar Home Video has hidden a few interesting supplements on their release of Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s “The City Of Lost Children” as pointed out in our review of the disc. Accessible from the disc’s menus, you will find a full length [...]
I like movies that don’t correspond to one particular genre. The kind of film that seems to be many different things at once. The problems with films that defy pigeonholing is that they are hard to market and they often go unnoticed by the public. [...]
Based on a novel by horror master Stephen King, "Salem’s Lot" is a dark vampire story, taking place in a Maine small town, as typical for King’s work. The novel is actually King’s second book, first published in 1975 and it shows much of [...]
A little while ago a new DVD publisher entered the playing field by the name of "Cerebellum". Some of you may have noticed the company with its release line-up that is quite a bit different from the other DVD fare we’re seeing so far. [...]
For those of you who read the reviews here at DVDReview.com, you may have noticed that I review a lot of movies that deal with teenagers. I don’t know why, but I really enjoy films like "Go", "10 Things I Hate About You" and [...]
"Dublin Soul" is one of the terms coined by this movie, and it is a surprisingly appropriate one. "The Commitments" has long been one of my favorite music films for a variety of reasons. For one it has a very unique charm, being placed [...]
Ah, another film that I saw when I was eleven years old and swore was the coolest movie ever. Well, all of these years later, “Fade To Black” doesn’t thrill me like it did then, but it does have a very interesting story. Eric Binford is a meek young [...]
An article in a recent issue of "Entertainment Weekly" focused on cooperative cross-overs between major Hollywood studios. The piece discussed how this was becoming more common, but that most of the big players didn’t like sharing finances or [...]
When most people think of Oscar-caliber films, they think of huge, sweeping epics, or serious, hard-to-follow films. Which is why I think most were surprised by "The Full Monty" a few years ago. The movie is exceedingly simple and subtle and [...]
