The good news is that the folks at Anchor Bay Entertainment continue to scour film vaults around the world, looking for obscure films. The bad news is that sometimes they find things like ’Mountaintop Motel Massacre’. Anchor Bay is pushing the camp [...]
It’s rare that I find a film that can be ’artsy’ without being pretentious or muddled, but ’Timeless’ is able to pull off this trick quite well. The story in ’Timeless’ is familiar enough. Peter Byrne stars as Terry, an 18-year old street [...]
After watching ’Nurse Betty’, it’s very easy to see why Renee Zellweger won a Golden Globe for her performance and was nominated for an Oscar. What’s not easy to fathom is why this film was marketed as a light-hearted comedy. Zellweger stars as [...]
You know that a movie is cookin’ when there is a scene in which the villain is about to get caught red-handed and you are on the edge of your seat. This is just an example of the high-quality filmmaking that one can expect from ’Anatomy’, a German [...]
A few quick notes before we proceed. I am not that fond of Robert Redford, Barry Levinson, or watching baseball. Having said all of that, whenever I watch ’The Natural’, I’m newly amazed at how much I admire the film. The film is a shining example [...]
In my opinion, "The Crow" is one of the most important films of the last decade. The film broke new ground in the genre of comic book adaptations, and was able to mix dark imagery with an exciting story, along with a pounding industrial [...]
When discussing the newly released ’The Crow: Salvation’, the question isn’t ’Is it as good as the first film?’ (because there’s no way that it could be), but rather, ’Is it as bad as the second one?’ The answer is that while ’The Crow: [...]
It was during the scene in ’Charlie’s Angels’ that a crowd is chanting ’Go, white girl!’ to a dancing Cameron Diaz, that I realized there is a downside to reviewing DVDs. ’Charlie’s Angels’ is, of course, based on the 70s TV series, and [...]
’Alien Nation’ is a competent sci-fi/action film that flirts with being a great movie. The film is set in the not-too-distant future, where a group of extraterrestrials have migrated to Earth and made their homes in and around Los Angeles. The aliens [...]
I had heard the name Hal Hartley mentioned many-a-time when the subject of independent film was raised, but it wasn’t until now that I actually viewed one of his movies. ’The Unbelievable Truth’ was one of Hartley’s earliest works, and it falls [...]
