For a long time, it had been considered "unfilmable", until a daring Milos Forman teamed up with writers Gerome Ragni and James Rado to create one of the best musical transitions from stage to screen. Converted directly from Broadway to a [...]
I guess the thing that surprised me the most about "The Thief" was the fact that this is a Russian movie, distributed in the US by a Hollywood major. Acclaimed with Academy Award nominations and other awards, the film has now been released on [...]
"Howard’s End" is an Academy Award winning movie based on the novel by E.M. Forster. The film is a literate adaption of the novel and as such has a very stylish, British feel to it, using much of the English landscape and London as a backdrop. [...]
Led by the disc’s cover artwork, I was looking at "Apt Pupil" without paying much attention to the release, expecting yet another superfluous modern teenage horror film. I am still hopeful someone in the marketing departments of Hollywood’s [...]
While the character of Ellen Ripley in the "Alien" movies were certainly Sigourney Weaver’s most famous and successful roles, her portrayal of sociologist Dian Fossey in "Gorillas In The Mist" was clearly the most remarkable and [...]
If someone asked me to describe "Strangeland" in three words, they would have to be sick, dark and twisted! Don’t get me wrong, I really liked Dee Snider’s Hollywood debut quite a bit. Not since David Fincher’s "Seven" have I [...]
I was approaching "Progeny" with mixed feelings. I had read a few things about the production in a number of other publications, and despite the fact that two established horror icons, Bryan Yuzna and Stuart Gordon, were attached to the film, [...]
The transfer used for this DVD of “My Left Foot” creates a very clean image with sharp edges and absolutely natural colors. The disc contains a pan & scan transfer of the film that has solid, deep blacks and stable colors throughout. Very well [...]
When Kiss took the stage at the Sony Music Studios in August of 1995 to play their unplugged session for MTV audiences, viewers around the world were allowed to witness something spectacular. The dream of every Kiss fan around the globe came true that [...]
Paul Anderson is the director behind the highly visual sci-fi/horror thriller "Event Horizon" and in his latest film, "Soldier" he is teaming up with Kurt Russell for a new science fiction action spectacle. Being a blend somewhere [...]
