As DVD has continued to grow in popularity, we’ve seen more and more filmmakers embracing the medium. With behind-the-scenes featurettes, audio commentaries, and multi-angle features, it has become clear that production companies are thinking ahead to [...]
Rhinomation delivers another quality effort with the third volume in their ’Battle of the Planet’ series. The aspect that makes these DVDs special is the obvious amount of work and care that goes into each one. Instead of simpling presenting the [...]
In my review for ’Witchouse: Blood Coven’, I stated that the DVD had set a high watermark for quality in direct-to-video releases. Well, indie horror auteur J.R. Bookwalter must have read that statement, as the newly released ’Witchouse 3: Demon [...]
Larry Clark, the director responsible for the disturbing and ultimately unwatchable ’Kids’, returns with a film, which is much better than his first effort, but no less revolting. In ’Bully’, Brad Renfro stars as Marty, a likable slacker who [...]
Dario Argento’s latest film ’Sleepless’ (aka ’Non Ho Sonno’) shows the director attempting to re-capture some of his old glory, as the film displays shades of his classics ’Deep Red’ and ’Tenebre’. Thirteen years ago a series of murders [...]
In recent years, we’ve become grudgingly accustomed to multiple DVD editions of the same movie. In the beginning, this was due to the remastering of a DVD or a release of a special edition disc to replace the previous release. More recently, the trend [...]
With the success of "Scream", we have seen a resurgence of the horror film in the last five years. However, for the most part, this new crop of scary movies lacks the punch that the horror films of the ’70s and ’80s had. Those older films [...]
Everything that you may have read about ’Baise Moi’ is true. Unless you’ve read that it’s worth seeing. This French film was banned in its native country and has gained notoriety for being controversial, but the truth is that it’s just boring [...]
Writing a review for a new DVD is usually divided into three components; A) What is the film about?, B) Is the film any good?, and C) Is the DVD itself worth checking out? Typically, the A) What is the film about? section is the easiest part of the review [...]
Fans of ’The Godfather’, the ’Star Trek’ films, and the ’Indiana Jones’ Trilogy know that Paramount can seem very cautious and meticulous when it comes to releasing its movies onto DVD. Which makes it all the more strange that they decided to [...]
