This time, it’s all about the book. It amazes me to find that genre champion Anchor Bay Entertainment has found yet another way to serve up the phenomenally successful "The Evil Dead," this time seeking to wrest away upwards of $40 from Evil [...]
Based on a Louis L’Amour novel, ’The Diamond Of Jeru’ is an adventure story of an American couple bored with their marriage as they travel to Borneo in search of diamonds. Their guide Mike takes them through the jungles of Borneo but also through [...]
"Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" is a gem of a comedy movie, by far one of the most hilarious comedies I have seen in my entire life. We all know that Steve Martin and Michael Caine have a funny bone or two, but teamed up together with director Frank [...]
Vincente Minelli’s 1957 comedy ’Designing Woman’ has long been one of the most entertaining hybrids of musical, comedy and drama of Hollywood’s golden era. It is the story of sportswriter Mike (Gregory Peck) who falls in love with a fashion [...]
For some time now Jackie Chan could been seen on television in an animated series called ’Jackie Chan Adventures.’ Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment is releasing these 60-minute segments to DVD and in ’The Dark Hand Returns, ’ we are witness as [...]
"Taps" is one of a handful of movies that seemed to play in an endless loop on HBO back in the mid-1980s. I must have seen the film a couple of dozen times as a lad so it was with some trepidation that I sat down to review this new DVD from 20th [...]
Have you ever noticed that when a movie is made using a pre-existing/familiar character, the story is always as convoluted and complicated as possible? Why is that? Just look at movies such as "The Addams Family", "Casper", [...]
In their series of ’Scooby-Doo’ releases, Warner Home Video is now visiting the 1989 full-length TV special ’Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf’ for release on DVD. Filled with exciting extras, the DVD sounds like a perfect addition to the [...]
Horror films are often criticized for being unoriginal, overly-simplistic, and derivative. And unfortunately for fright film fans, this sort of critique is true more often than it is not. However, there are times when a film deliberately takes this sort [...]
The National Geographic Society continues to amaze me with its ability to branch out beyond the confines of its familiar yellow magazine and take advantage of the latest technology to expand its mission of global education. They were quick to embrace both [...]
