Here’s another intriguing film from up and comers Vanguard Cinema. ’The Height of the Sky’ won the ’Best Feature Film’ award at the Telluride Film Festival and it’s easy to see why. The film is set in rural Arkansas in the summer of 1935. The [...]
After recently viewing "The Cider House Rules", I’ve been giving a great deal of thought to movie adaptations of novels. As long as the novel isn’t some sort of way-out science fiction, it’s generally pretty easy to transplant the story [...]
Late last year, Universal Home Video premiered their "Classic Monster Collection" on DVD. Following the success of the initial group of titles, Universal is bringing us a new group of terror titans on DVD. One of the most highly anticipated [...]
When critics are discussing filmmakers, it’s very common for the auteur theory to be mentioned. This is especially true when genre directors are being profiled. Directors such as Romero, Argento, Bava, and Carpenter are often lauded for their dedication [...]
’Desert Winds’ is an unusual little movie, which is very different from your standard Hollywood fare. A pre-’Boogie Nights’ Heather Graham stars as Jackie, a young girl who lives in New Mexico. One day, Jackie is yelling from a cliff, trying to [...]
"Don’t we already have that on laserdisc?" "Isn’t that on TBS every other day?" "But you hate that movie!" These responses may be familiar to those of you who are like me and insist on getting certain things on DVD. There [...]
This is the third DVD from the Disney Channel series ’Bear in the Big Blue House, ’ and it continues the tradition of quality shown in the first DVD. ’Shapes, Sounds, & Colors with Bear’ features three full-length episodes from the series. [...]
As we all know, Hollywood is motivated by trends. One trend that has seemed to die out in the last decade (outside of the home video market) are film series. The eighties saw the market get "sequelitis", especially when it came to horror films. [...]
The explosive popularity of the DVD format has seen an influx of foreign titles to the American market. While discussion is usually limited to the rise in the availability of European horror titles, there has also been a surge in the number of releases [...]
’Sleepaway Camp’ is an odd little film, which was a late entry into the ’Slasher Cycle’ of the early 80s. The movie plays like a cross between ’Friday the 13th’ and the Bill Murray comedy ’Meatballs’. (It’s also unusual because there is [...]
