’The 10th Victim’ is a very odd hybrid sci-fi/comedy/60s Mod movie based on an original story by Robert Sheckley (sadly out-of-print). Directed by Elio Petri, this quirky Italian film offers a funny and entertaining look at the serious business of [...]
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 [...]
"Mephisto" won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1982 and marked the first of three creative collaborations between the acclaimed Hungarian director István Szabó and the great Austrian actor Klaus Maria Brandauer. On the [...]
In keeping with the peculiar trend for well-titled movies to be renamed and dumbed down for American television audiences, this fine wartime drama may be better known to stateside late night TV fans as "Suicide Run." Written and directed by the [...]
The mid-1980s saw the arrival of many wonderful fantasy films for children such as ’The Neverending Story, ’ ’The Dark Crystal, ’ and ’The Labyrinth.’ Sadly, this genre never seemed to take hold with critics or audiences and, while the [...]
In June 1999, ’Barry Lyndon’ appeared on DVD as part of the Stanley Kubrick Collection box set released to celebrate the life and work of the acclaimed director who passed away on March 7th of that same year. At the time, fans were assured that these [...]
"Thirteen Days" is the title that New Line has selected to usher in their new Infinifilm line of highly interactive DVDs. On the surface this may seem to be an unusual choice as the movie didn’t do all that well at the box office and received [...]
Following the success of his previous television series, "Secret Agent," Patrick McGoohan decided to try something very different. The result was "The Prisoner," a 17 episode series that first aired on British television in 1967. The [...]
December 7, 1941 may well be a day that will live in infamy but from all of the recent interest in Pearl Harbor you would think that the Japanese surprise attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet’s home base took place in May, not December. While the hype [...]
The popular conception of America in the 1950’s is one of political witch-hunts and repressed passions. Television antennas spread over the landscape like an invasion of metallic weeds from outer space. The suburbs exploded and everyone wanted to be [...]
