At times beautifully horrific and horribly beautiful, Godfrey Reggio’s 1983 visual fantasia ’Koyaanisqatsi’ transformed clouds into raging rivers, skyscrapers into lunar altars and rush-hour humanity into sausage links. MGM Home Entertainment’s [...]
It seems like an eternity has passed since the inception of DVD and since those first days, fans have eagerly been anticipating the release of the 1958 Hammer horror classic, "Horror Of Dracula." The rights for Hammer films are spread across [...]
Buena Vista Home Entertainment has created a dedicated line of releases for actor Jet Li to cash in on his current popularity among American moviegoers. However the way it is done shows that the studio has no respect whatsoever for the actors work and [...]
On Buena Vista Home Entertainment’s Collector’s Edition release of the Pixar feature “Monsters, Inc.” you can find some additional hidden material if you know where to look. Insert the second disc of the set – the one with the Bonus Materials. [...]
Although there is a big and healthy U.S. market for feature films from Hong Kong these days – mostly thanks to Tai Seng’s relentless and aggressive efforts during the early days of DVD – surprisingly few of the many TV mini-series that are produced [...]
One thing you can learn from "Shipping News" is how to spin a story. In a poignant segment early in the movie, Quoyle is taught how to create a headline for a story – "Imminent Storm Threatens Village!" It’s appropriate, as a [...]
As a Farrelly brothers film you can rest assured that "Shallow Hal" is infused with a very bent sense of humor. What may come as a bit of a shock is that the film is actually fairly sweet and seldom drops to the same level of gross-out humor as [...]
Us Yanks can be grateful to the year 1964 for two reasons: the Beatles made their first US appearance and ’Devil Doll’ bowed on movie and drive-in screens. For us connoisseurs of hokey 1960s British cinema, Image Entertainment’s new DVD edition of [...]
When it comes to satisfying, low-budget creature features, director Gary Jones delivers. From the bloody good bite of Mosquito to the creepy-crawly assault of Spiders, Jones is living proof that you don’t need a boatload of cash to create eye-popping [...]
Why is it that the vast majority of adult American filmgoers continue to look down upon animated feature films as being just for kids? As a lifelong fan of animation I’ve never quite understood this bias. Fortunately not all cultures share this disdain [...]
