It’s certainly frustrating when a recent movie is released on DVD with no extras. What makes this practice even more frustrating and mysterious is that Anchor Bay Entertainment can seemingly effortlessly release a 40-year old movie with a ton of great [...]
When the only clever thing that a film has going for it is the title, you know you’re in trouble, and I don’t expect to win a Pulitzer for reporting that ’Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers’ isn’t a very good movie. Private detective Jack Chandler (Jay [...]
After directing only three films, I don’t know if Sean Penn can qualify as an auteur, but his movies certainly have a signature style. Penn tends to make films featuring realistic characters, which have a fatal flaw and find themselves facing [...]
It seemed very odd when two films concerning high school cheerleaders, ’Bring it On’ and ’Sugar & Spice’, were released theatrically six months apart, as this isn’t a genre which has been explored much in the past. ’Bring it On’ is a [...]
Following the (financial) success of "Friday the 13th, Part 2" and "Friday the 13th, Part 3", it probably didn’t surprise people in the entertainment industry that producer Sean Cunningham and director Steve Miner wanted to work [...]
As we all know, there’s nothing quite like when an old favorite makes its way to DVD, so that we may enjoy it in all of its digital splendor. However, the recent release of "The Muppet Movie" has left me feeling a bit saddened. When I first [...]
Nobody likes to be the butt of a joke. This especially holds true for people or entities who take themselves very seriously and feel superior to others, such as Hollywood. This fact makes David Mamet’s skewering of the film industry in his latest film [...]
’Stuart Little’ may be the epitome of computer animated mouse movies, but the animated version of ’Charlotte’s Web’ must be considered as the best film translation of E.B. White’s work. The film manages to retain the mood of the novel, while [...]
I hate to sound like most every other critic who’s ever written about Stanley Kubrick’s ’Full Metal Jacket’, but the second-half of the film truly pales in comparison to the first-half. For the first 45-minutes, we are treated to a glimpse into [...]
They say that everything old is new again. This, of course, refers to the notion that societal and cultural trends, such as music and fashion, will come into style, die out, and then be in vogue again. This theory applies to movies as well. In 1989, [...]
