In recent years, we’ve become grudgingly accustomed to multiple DVD editions of the same movie. In the beginning, this was due to the remastering of a DVD or a release of a special edition disc to replace the previous release. More recently, the trend [...]
’Topkapi’ is a 1964 heist film from director Jules Dassin, whose earlier ’Rififi’ is widely hailed as a classic of the genre. While ’Rififi’ is a very dark and serious film, ’Topkapi’ is much more light-hearted and comical in nature and [...]
"Hedwig and the Angry Inch, " a flamboyant, touching rock musical in the vein of "The Rocky Horror Show," is the brainchild of actor/writer John Cameron Mitchell. What started as an improv character became an off-Broadway hit, [...]
With the success of "Scream", we have seen a resurgence of the horror film in the last five years. However, for the most part, this new crop of scary movies lacks the punch that the horror films of the ’70s and ’80s had. Those older films [...]
Featuring an all-star cast that consists of Anthony Hopkins, Anne Bancroft, John Hurt, John Gielgud and many others, ’The Elephant Man’ is the highly acclaimed telling of an impressively touching and sensible story. It is about a man who is extremely [...]
"The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension" surely ranks as one of the classic cult movies of all time. This insanely great little film has carved out a nice little niche for itself due solely to word of mouth by the rabid fans [...]
"Burden of Dreams" may have been the title to the 1982 documentary about German filmmaker Werner Herzog’s journey into the Amazon to shoot his epic adventure "Fitzcarraldo, " but the moniker also handily applies to the misfit [...]
One of the most impressive film noir’s of the 50s came from legendary German director-gone-Hollywood in the 1953 movie ’The big Heat.’ Starring Glenn Ford and Lee Marvin in stellar performances, this film contains everything you’d expect from a [...]
Writing a review for a new DVD is usually divided into three components; A) What is the film about?, B) Is the film any good?, and C) Is the DVD itself worth checking out? Typically, the A) What is the film about? section is the easiest part of the review [...]
Everything that you may have read about ’Baise Moi’ is true. Unless you’ve read that it’s worth seeing. This French film was banned in its native country and has gained notoriety for being controversial, but the truth is that it’s just boring [...]
