On Warner Home Video’s release of “Looney Tunes: Back In Action” the studio has hidden a brief animated clip. Here is how to find it. From the DVD’s Main Menu go to the “special Features.” There, press the “Right” arrow key on your remote [...]
For multi-tasking moviemaker Robert Rodriguez, family matters. So much so that Rodriguez’s "Spy Kids" movies have become a legitimate franchise. Why shouldn’t they? 2001’s "Spy Kids" retooled every James Bond cliché to a modest [...]
On 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment’s 35th Anniversary Edition of “Planet Of The Apes” the studio has hidden some very cool, vintage footage. Insert the second disc of the DVD set and from the Main Menu select the “Ape Phenomenon” menu entry. [...]
I must admit: I caught bits and pieces of both the syndicated shows "Hercules" and its offshoot "Xena: Warrior Princess" when both originally aired in the 1990s. I never really got into the fan base of either show, mainly because after [...]
Ron Howard’s action-thriller "Ransom" is an exciting ride with some wild and unexpected twists and turns, a wickedly exhilarating movie experience. Although the movie exhibits some weaknesses in the script and in its elaboration of the [...]
When I originally saw "The Final Countdown" in theaters in 1980 I never realized it was such a "small" movie. Small in terms of its budget, of course, and not in terms of the achievement, because as this DVD just reminded me, "The [...]
On Anchor Bay’s Divimax version of George Romero’s zombie classic “Dawn Of The Dead” the studio has hidden some additional footage. Here’s how you can find these clips. From the DVD’s Main Menu go to the “Extras” submenu. Once you get [...]
A group of young people is driving to a remote cabin in the woods for some partying when all of a sudden they are haunted by unimaginable horrors in this independent low budget film. No, I am not talking about Sam Raimi’s seminal budget horror film [...]
French politician Georges Clemenceau once remarked: "War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men." Jury "consultant" Rankin Fitch (Gene Hackman) embraces a more adaptable and personally lucrative philosophy for our overly [...]
The BBC production ’The Heart Of Me’ is a wonderfully romantic and dramatic voyage through personal emotions and relationships. It tells the story of two sisters, Madeleine ( Olivia Williams) and Dinah (Helena Bonham Carter) in London in the 30s. [...]
