Those of you who were disappointed with Warner’s initial DVD release of ’The Shining’ will surely feel vindicated when you see the updated version. While the vast majority of this new release is identical to the previous version, it does sport newly [...]
First of all, allow me to say that ’Biozombie’ is not the all-out living dead gorefest that we’ve all been waiting for. Secondly, let me add that this is still one really cool movie! Playing as a mixture of ’Mallrats’ and ’Dawn of the Dead’, [...]
We’re all familiar with the urban paranoia (’Arlington Road’) or even rural paranoia (’The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’) films, but what about swamp paranoia? That’s the focus of Walter Hill’s 1981 thriller ’Southern Comfort’, which is set [...]
(Writer’s Note: For clarity, I will refer to the original Danish version of this film as ’Nattevagten’ and the American remake as ’Nightwatch’. Note that Anchor Bay is releasing this film under the title ’Nightwatch’.) Despite the recent [...]
’Best in Show’ is the second film from the team of Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy, who had previously brought us 1996’s ’Waiting for Guffman’. As with ’Guffman’, ’Best in Show’ is a film that begins with a basic outline and then [...]
If you are deathly afraid of cats, namely black cats, then this is the horror film that you’ve been waiting for! For, all others, welcome to a typical Lucio Fulci film. Fulci made ’The Black Cat’ during the early 80s, when he cranked out many films, [...]
If you are like me, you’re always on the lookout for a new ass-kicking horror film that will change the face of the genre as we know it. Well, don’t get your hopes up, because ’Cut’ isn’t that film. As a matter of fact, ’Cut’ takes a giant [...]
While the quality of the Disney animated films which have appeared over the past 15 years may vary greatly from movie to movie, you typically know what to expect when you sit down to view one of these films. (Here, I’m speaking of Disney’s traditional [...]
For those of you who aren’t familiar with ’The Ring’ phenomenon, it’s one of the biggest things to hit Japan in years. This horror tale began as a series of novels, and was then transformed into a TV movie. After that, a feature film was made in [...]
While movies are certainly not real, they often show an accurate portrayal of reality. However, there are many times when fictional films totally miss the mark. The happens all the times when movies deal with mental illness. The mentally ill in the movies [...]
