Articles by Guido Henkel

Image cancel “The Slayers”

May 15, 1998 // 0 Comments

Everyone awaiting Image Entertainment’s release of the Japanese animation movie “The Slayers” will be very disappointed to hear the Image have cancelled the title. No exact reasons are known at this point and no comment has been made whether the [...]

MGM put James Bond on hold

May 13, 1998 // 0 Comments

MGM Home Video have put all James Bond releases, except the brand-new “Tomorrow Never Dies”, on moratorium. All available Bond titles will disappear from stores on VHS and DVD very soon, as MGM intent to lock the titles up until late 1999 when the [...]

A Chinese Ghost Story

May 12, 1998 // 0 Comments

When I first heard that the "A Chinese Ghost Story" trilogy is coming to DVD I was cautiously ecstatic, especially so because I had heard that Media Asia remastered the movie for DVD and had given the soundtrack a remix. Still, Media Asia is [...]

VM Labs reveal “Project X”

May 11, 1998 // 0 Comments

In a press conference earlier this morning, California based VM Labs revealed their long-under-wraps “Project X”. It is a flexible and scalable addition to future digital consumer devices, such as DVD players, digital satellite receivers, digital [...]

“Tomorrow Never Dies” breaks records

May 8, 1998 // 0 Comments

MGM’s release of the latest James Bond actionfest “Tomorrow Never Dies” has set a new record in intial shipment. MGM have shipped 170, 000 copies of the DVD to retailers and have still been unable to fulfill all demands, probably resulting in a [...]

Fierce Creatures

May 1, 1998 // 0 Comments

Nine years after making the vastly successful and highly acclaimed "A Fish Called Wanda", the cast has rejoined on John Cleese’s call to create yet another memorable, piercingly satirical comedy called "Fierce Creatures". John Cleese [...]

Mimic

May 1, 1998 // 0 Comments

There haven’t been a lot of high quality horror movies around the last few years. The genre was slow, with only a few releases surfacing, until horrormeister Wes Craven’s smash hit "Scream" turned the focus back to horror. While it didn’t [...]

Lady In White

May 1, 1998 // 0 Comments

Frank LaLoggia’s "Lady In White" is a visually pleasing, inspired movie with plenty of personality. Unique among its kind and entertaining to watch, this film puts the finger exactly on the term "haunted". It explores experiences and [...]

Godzilla, King Of The Monsters

May 1, 1998 // 0 Comments

Godzilla is experiencing a huge revival these days, especially with the introduction of Roland Emmerich’s new incarnation of the legendary kaiju the Japanese term for giant monster. Godzilla has appeared in an impressively large array of 22 Japanese [...]

Tomorrow Never Dies

May 1, 1998 // 0 Comments

After 18 James Bond movies, you think you have seen it all, right? Wrong. The fund of James Bond scenarios seems to be endless, and though the recipe remains the same in each movie, they still are some of the most entertaining and respected action [...]
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