"Batman: The Movie" was certainly the least likely film to be released on DVD as a Special Edition, but fortunately a group of fans within 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment directly lobbied the movie, and here we have it the "Holy Special [...]
Over his forty-four year career as a director, Howard Hawks tried his hand at just about every conceivable film genre including musicals ("Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"), gangster films ("Scarface"), and Westerns ("Rio Bravo"). [...]
Following in the long line of movies based on "Saturday Night Live" skits, "Wayne’s World" arrived in theaters in 1992 and was an immediate hit. While most films to come out of the "SNL" stable have been forgettable, if not [...]
Hollywood is often accused of underestimating the masses and delivering the same drivel to the public over and over again. (For a rather acidic diatribe on this point, check out the by Henry Selick on "Monkeybone".) Typically, the only way to [...]
I’m going to start off this review with a little story. Two years ago, in the summer of 1999, I was tipped off on the fanatical Internet DVD forums that a little known film from England was going to be released on DVD and that it was available online [...]
Have you ever wondered where nightmares come from? Or, have you ever given any thought to what is happening in the minds of those unfortunate people who are in comas? If these thoughts have crossed your mind, you’ll find some answers in the film [...]
Following the (financial) success of "Friday the 13th, Part 2" and "Friday the 13th, Part 3", it probably didn’t surprise people in the entertainment industry that producer Sean Cunningham and director Steve Miner wanted to work [...]
As we all know, there’s nothing quite like when an old favorite makes its way to DVD, so that we may enjoy it in all of its digital splendor. However, the recent release of "The Muppet Movie" has left me feeling a bit saddened. When I first [...]
Nobody likes to be the butt of a joke. This especially holds true for people or entities who take themselves very seriously and feel superior to others, such as Hollywood. This fact makes David Mamet’s skewering of the film industry in his latest film [...]
Brothers Ethan and Joel Coen are well-known to their fans for their wicked humor and the dark, almost morbid undertones in their films. While the Academy Award-winning "Fargo" was overtly violent, films like "Raising Arizona" or [...]
