As we all know, genre-cycles come and go in Hollywood. In the early ’80s, there was an insurgence of mythical fantasy films, which came to be known as "sword & sorcery" movies. This trend was no doubt influenced by the popularity of the [...]
Thanks to films such as the "Nightmare on Elm Sreet" series and "An American Werewolf in London", today’s audiences are accustomed to the seamless incorporation of dream sequences into movies. While movies have always featured dreams [...]
For those of you who are reading this to get a review of the content of ’The X-Files: Season One Collector’s Edition’, just bear with me for a moment. Because, first, instead of reviewing the box set, I must review the box itself. If you haven’t [...]
I’ve written before about the great job that Anchor Bay does restoring older, obscure films. Recently, Anchor Bay has continued this trend, and it seems that they are trying to fill the needs of film fans, no matter how marketable a film may be. Anchor [...]
In the mid-eighties, horror was searching for a new identity. The slasher cycle was all but dead, and the wave of zombie films was beginning to run its course. While filmmakers in America were floundering in rehashed ideas (save for films like [...]
One of the most impressive things about DVDs thus far (besides the picture and sound quality) is the number of catalog titles that have been released. Most of the studios have been doing an admirable job of mixing new releases with older films. The only [...]
Disney has only been distributing their ’Gold Collection’ titles for a few months now, but they’ve already hit a stumbling block. After the fairly impressive work on ’The Aristocats’, I was very surprised by the overall poor quality of the DVD [...]
So, Guido gives me the DVD of "The Abominable Snowman" and says, "I want you to review this. Have you seen it?" And I replied, "Not Yeti." (OK, now that I’ve gotten my Yeti joke out of the way, on with the review!) [...]
I don’t think that I’ve ever been faced with a film as challenging to review as ’The Minus Man.’ The film is so subtle and dreamlike, that it’s hard to judge. I certainly didn’t hate it, because it’s so innocuous that it would be hard to [...]
I’m not a big fan of the "So bad it’s Good" school of fandom. Ed Wood’s movies have a certain bizarre charm and there’s a stinker called "The Children" that I just love, but other than that, I consider most bad movies to be [...]
