Ronnie Ashcroft’s dreadful calling card to the cinema begins as a heist caper, with the abduction of a prominent socialite. The kidnappers almost reach freedom when they encounter the glowing She-Monster on a deserted (what else?) highway. Smashing [...]
Shakespeare raider Kenneth Branagh’s latest stab at the Bard re-imagines the slight 1593 comedy ’Love’s Labour’s Lost’ as a 1930’s screwball musical. Where to begin? The DVD from Miramax Home Entertainment indeed treats with a stellar transfer [...]
Even by today’s cynical standards, no one could compete with the star power of John Wayne. He truly was bigger than life. He was "the Duke." ("Repo Man" notwithstanding; those who’ve seen it will get the joke.) He stood out [...]
’Destiny, ’ Fritz Lang’s 1921 meditation on love and death, weaves the tale of a young couple (Lil Dagover and Walter Janssen) en route to their wedding when Death personified (the wonderfully gaunt Bernard Goetzke) takes the young man. Determined [...]
Punctuated by the booming intonations of narrator James Coburn, ’20th Century Fox: The First 50 Years’ is an entertaining documentary about the history and legacy of the studio. The Image Entertainment DVD also includes almost two hours of [...]
Sporting a gorgeous transfer, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment’s new DVD release of the 1967 musical "Doctor Dolittle" indeed rekindles childhood memories of an imagination fired by visions of a two-headed dancing llama or casual [...]
When animation went digital, a terrible trade-off occurred. Digital technology may have made the inert photo-realistic; yet at its heart, animation isn’t about realism, it’s about style. Whether it’s pen to paper, brush to cel, or fingers to clay, [...]
"7 Faces of Dr. Lao, " George Pal’s compassionate adaption of Charles Finney’s 1935 cult novel about a mystical circus and its effect on a small Western town, has always been my favorite George Pal film. The story cuts just enough to make [...]
Mike Myers has ruined James Bond for me. Lampooning the spy genre with his Austin Powers persona, Myers forever sabotaged all future attempts to watch a Bond film with a straight face. Myers let the audience in on the same joke with the actors and [...]
Viewing Warner Home Video’s radiant DVD of the almost lost 1954 musical version of "A Star Is Born" sparked mixed emotions. Warner’s first foray into DVD-18 territory is an out and out winner, promising good things to come with future Warner [...]
