People will always want more of a good thing. Which is why, when ABC canceled the TV show "Twin Peaks" in 1991 after a 29-episode run, the ravenous fans of the show demanded more. Despite the fact that the central conceit of the show, the murder [...]
’The Soultaker’ is an Anime series filled with elements of gothic horror, science fiction, mutants and modern Anime themes. It is a good mix as the series’ main character Kyosuke tries to find out more about his real past as he discovers his mutant [...]
I suppose I should fess up and admit that I was a pre-teen geek of the highest order circa 1982. My idea of fun was a day spent banging out BASIC programs on the membrane keyboard of my Timex Sinclair computer followed by a trip to the neighborhood video [...]
Like Halley’s comet, Mark Twain was a shining light in the sky that is mankind. The comparison may appear weird, but as many other weird aspects of Mark Twain’s life, the two do seem to be intertwined. Twain was born under the Halley comet and he [...]
For those who like to get technical when pigeonholing films, it seems that every genre has a series of sub-genres. In the early ’70s, exploitation films gave way to "Blaxploitation" films, which featured predominantly African-American casts. [...]
After first releasing a bare-bones version of the film on DVD in March of last year – please see our review of the disc here – Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment is finally delivering the DVD that should have been in the first place – a 2-disc [...]
Alan J. Pakula is at home in the genre of heartfelt character drama, like ’Sophie’s Choice,’ as much as in intense thrillers. ’Klute’ is his 1971 thriller debut starring Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland in a film that was at its time quite [...]
Jospeh Mankiewicz’s mystery comedy ’Sleuth’ still ranks as one of the best of its genre and I find myself smiling smirking still, just as I write this. The story of a wealthy writer (Laurence Olivier) and a penniless hairdresser (Michael Caine) [...]
With all the publicity surrounding Steven Soderbergh’s remake of the classic movie, I was eager to see the original ’Ocean’s 11,’ featuring the Rat Pack, also known as Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. and Peter Lawford. It is the story [...]
Quick question, has there ever been a film that was renamed for American distribution in which the new name actually improved upon the original? I didn’t think so. Such is the case with 1960’s "The City of the Dead, " an exquisitely crafted [...]
