Articles by Michael Pflug
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
Ah yes, there’s nothing like a trip down memory lane courtesy of a newly released DVD. I first saw ’Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure’ during college and then — as now — nothing could have been a finer tonic for the overworked [...]
War Gods Of The Deep
Yet another in the long line of American International Pictures film projects based on Edgar Allen Poe stories, ’War-Gods of the Deep’ is a rousing undersea adventure. The original title of the film was ’The City Under the Sea’ and that moniker [...]
Doctor Zhivago
"Doctor Zhivago" was the third grand epic by acclaimed director David Lean. While his earlier efforts "The Bridge on the River Kwai" and "Lawrence of Arabia" are widely hailed as two of the finest films ever created, many of [...]
Fritz The Cat
I first saw ’Fritz the Cat’ during a midnight screening in college and, while I knew full well what to expect, I was still unprepared for the jarring juxtaposition between the cute animation style and the very adult and dark subject matter. Originally [...]
Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas
When I first learned that ’Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas’ was coming to DVD I was both excited and a little bit apprehensive. I fondly recall watching this Jim Henson production countless times on HBO in the early 1980s but I hadn’t seen it [...]
Jabberwocky
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!" Director Terry Gilliam began work on "Jabberwocky" very soon after the completion of the classic "Monty Python and the Holy Grail." As both films are [...]