Almost from the moment that fighting began in North Africa during the Second World War, Hollywood started churning out movies set in that desolate yet compelling environment. Something about the swirling desert sands and the rapid style of mechanized [...]
Imagine, if you will, what would happen if someone added a heavy dose of melodramatic teen angst to the classic summer camp film ’Meatballs’, and you’ll begin to get an idea of what ’Happy Campers’ is all about. This little oddity comes to us [...]
’Tender Mercies’ was nominated for five Academy Awards in 1984 and won two — Best Actor for Robert Duvall and Best Original Screenplay for Horton Foote. Reading just a synopsis of the story one wouldn’t immediately think of ’Tender [...]
The summer of 1940 saw one of history’s most important battles being waged in the skies above England. The vastly outnumbered and outgunned Royal Air Force managed to fend off the mighty German Luftwaffe and their success in the sky saved Britain from [...]
The saying tells us that ’Everything that’s old is new again’ and that’s certainly true in the case of Scooby-Doo, as the character, who is over thirty years old, is more popular now than ever. With this renewed interest in Scooby, Warner has [...]
With ’Arlington Rd.’, director Mark Pellington was able to breathe new life into the paranoia-thriller genre. With his second film, ’The Mothman Prophecies’, he tackles a supernatural-suspense tale, but the results aren’t as promising. [...]
1985’s ’Transylvania 6-5000’ was the first — and so far only — feature film directed by frequent Mel Brooks collaborator Rudy De Luca. Featuring a cast of easily recognizable faces and playing with horror characters and settings that [...]
Following the success of their 1999 DVD release, "The Videos 86-98", British musical group Depeche Mode have now decided to bring their exciting live show to DVD. Originally broadcast as a pay-per-view event, "One Night In Paris" comes [...]
’Silver Bullet’ is one of a number of Stephen King adaptions, which hit theaters in the mid ’80s. And like so many of those films, it fails to capture the spirit of King’s literary work. ’Silver Bullet’ begins by introducing two divergent [...]
Over the years, Disney’s direct-to-video animated sequels have ranged from good (’Pocahontas II’) to awful (’Return of Jafar’). ’The Hunchback of Notre Dame II’ falls somewhere in-between. The story picks up a few years after the conclusion [...]
