While “Teaching Mrs. Tingle” certainly isn’t the worst film of 1999 as some critics have suggested (that honor still belongs to “The Blair Witch Project” in my book), it is certainly one of the most disappointing ones. The directorial debut of [...]
One genre that continues to grow on DVD is the music video segment. It seems like an obvious evolution as DVD can offer CD quality sound, right? Well, not in the case of the new release, “Filter: Title of DVD.” While this video compilation offers some [...]
Before MTV and the advent of music videos, rock & roll fans had to make do with movies featuring their favorite acts. These ranged from the fun romps like The Beatles’ "A Hard Day’s Night", to psychedelic trips as in The Beatles’ [...]
Let me start off by saying that if you don’t know a lot about the Watergate scandal, then you may not get most of the jokes in “Dick.” I know that I missed most of the inside jokes in the film. (Give me a break, I was three years old when the [...]
It’s always nice to come across a truly inventive and visionary movie. And it’s even better when it was made by people that you are already familiar with. “Running Time” was concocted by Sam Raimi protege Josh Becker (“Thou Shalt Not [...]
As the world becomes smaller thanks to the availability of information from sources such as the Internet, I’ve noticed that movies critics have become much more snotty and seem to only want to recognize “important” films. A case in point is “Drop [...]
There are certain icons in film that shouldn’t be challenged. These films have defined certain genres and whenever you make a film that is even close to these touchstone films, your film will be scrutinized. For mafia films, there’s "The [...]
In the early 80s, the raunchy teenage comedy ruled. After "Porky’s" was a box-office smash (from the director of "Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things" and "A Christmas Story"), you couldn’t throw a cat without [...]
If you were like me and missed “The Saturday Night Live 25th Anniversary Special” when it originally aired on NBC, Trimark has done us a favor and released the extravaganza on DVD. Like every episode of “SNL”, the special is hit-or-miss, but [...]
As we all know, you can’t please all of the people all of the time. With that in mind, I still had the same problems with “U2: Rattle and Hum” viewing it today, that I did eleven years ago when I saw it in the theater. Namely, I didn’t agree with [...]
