When I first inserted "A History In Violence" in my DVD player I did not know what to expect, really. Then it reads there "A film by David Cronenberg." Okay… I had no idea. I remembered the trailers for the movie I had seen and it [...]
"Action" was a TV show that aired during the 1999-2000 season and sadly, it was rather short lived. After 13 episodes, the show was cancelled. Not because it wasn't good, but because it clearly hit too close to home. "Action" [...]
When I put "North Country" in my DVD player I expected to be entertained, but nothing prepared me for the true power this movie exuberates, making it more than just entertainment, but a thought-provoking film instead. After a battered [...]
On Disney Home Entertainment’s direct-to-DVD release “Bambi II” there is also a nice little hidden feature to be found. The release features two menu themes, that are selected at random upon start-up of the DVD. There is, however, a way to manually [...]
BBC Home Entertainment has included some hidden interactivity on their release of “Red Dwarf VII.” Here is how to handle it. Insert the third disc of the DVD set in your player and on the Main Menu highlight the “Subtitles” menu entry. Now press [...]
I didn't pay a lot of attention to "The Weather Man" when it originally hit theaters but when the DVD arrived a little while ago, I decided to give it a check-up nonetheless, and I am glad I did. It is a thoughtful and heartfelt movie about [...]
David Lynch sure didn't make a whole lot of people happy when he took on the chore of bringing Frank Herbert's novel "Dune" to the screen back in 1983. Following his less than stellar presentation that never came close to box office [...]
Based on Paul Gallico's novel, the story of the luxury liner that capsizes in the middle of the ocean with many of its cruise passengers trapped on the inside has been inspiration to a number of filmmakers. From the 1972 film and its 1979 sequel, to [...]
MGM Home Entertainment released Sidney Lumet's "Network" as part of their early DVD efforts in 1997 and when part of the MGM library was sold to Warner Brothers, Warner Home Video re-released the same DVD in 2000, barebones as it was. Now, [...]
Though mostly recognized for his "Django" character Italian actor Franco Nero has actually covered a very wide variety of personalities in his 40-year career and still keeps adding new facets to it every year. Blue Underground has now prepared a [...]
