Articles by Guido Henkel

Image Entertainment reduce DVD prices

April 29, 1998 // 0 Comments

Image Entertainment have announced a price reduction on many of their upcoming DVD releases, starting with their May 6 release batch. Titles included are America’s Greatest Roller Coasters, Dracula, Electric Horseman, Flash Gordon, Rolling Stones: [...]

Anchor Bay announce new titles

April 28, 1998 // 0 Comments

Anchor Bay have just released information on their forthcoming slate of June and July releases… and especially their July line-up should make every horror fan drool. So, where do we start then? As we have announced at an earlier date already, [...]

Paramount is in!

April 27, 1998 // 0 Comments

Isn’t it funny? Only yesterday I published my commentary on Fox’s and Paramount’s hold-out on the DVD platform and imagine what comes in first things this morning? A press-release from Paramount stating that they have finally committed to DVD. Yes [...]

Independence Day on DVD?

April 23, 1998 // 0 Comments

Something really interesting showed up on the Internet Usenet group this morning. Someone posted screenshots from what looks like a DVD version of “Independence Day”. Now, the interesting thing about this is that “ID4” is a Fox Home Video release [...]

To Kill A Mockingbird

April 23, 1998 // 0 Comments

Based on the classic Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee, "To Kill A Mockingbird" is a legendary movie, uniquely strong and sensitive about racism and the ways of the Old South during the Depression in the 1930s. It has been turned into a [...]

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

April 20, 1998 // 0 Comments

"Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" is a gem of a comedy movie, far one of the most hilarious comedies I have seen in my entire life. We all know that Steve Martin and Michael Caine have a funny moment or two, but teamed up together with director Frank Oz [...]

The Secret Garden

April 12, 1998 // 0 Comments

"Secret Garden" is a fine addition to DaVid Entertainment’s library of high quality adult movies. Structurally, it is a rather conventional X-rated movie, in that its small plot hardly matters. It is the skillful photography and tasteful [...]

Dragonheart

April 4, 1998 // 0 Comments

For some years now, we have witnessed groundbreaking technological advancements in the area of computer-generated images. What originally started with rather short snippets of computer-rendered dinosaurs in "Jurassic Park" in 1992 has become a [...]

The Good, The Bad And The Ugly

April 2, 1998 // 0 Comments

Some movies are legendary. In the arena of Westerns, Sergio Leone’s works are unmatched in their strikingly visual approach, namely, the extensive use of dramatic shots interleaved with moments of extreme close-ups. Apart from creating a complete [...]

Boogie Nights

April 1, 1998 // 0 Comments

"Boogie Nights" was 1997’s sleeper hit, a movie that caught the industry by surprise and earned one of its stars, Burt Reynolds, an Academy Award nomination. It is director Paul Thomas Anderson’s second feature movie, and as such displays an [...]
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