"Jurassic Park" was and still is landmark achievement and the single best dinosaur film ever banned on celluloid to date. Sadly the film was followed up by a poor sequel with "The Lost World, " a movie in which nothing really felt [...]
One of Artisan’s highly touted films is now on DVD. It is the Mob comedy ’Made, ’ in which two small time mob-runners (Vince Vaughn and Jon Faverau) are given a big job in New York, only to mess it up with their innate inability. Sadly, not much of [...]
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment has hidden a nice little gem on their release of Ron Howard’s fantasy adventure “Willow.” From the disc’s main menu select “Special Features” and once you get there, select the entry “Trailers and TV [...]
As someone who prides himself on keeping up with horror films, I don’t know how I missed this little gem, originally entitled ’Plankton’. After taking a motorized inflatable raft for a pleasure cruise in the ocean (!?), five young people find [...]
Warner Home Video has hidden a number of exciting hidden features on their release of “The Matrix Revisited, ” that are definitely worth checking out! From the disc’s main menu, select the “Go Further” menu entry, which takes you to a separate [...]
"Osmosis Jones" is quite a surprise, emerging as a funny and clever comedy for adults and kids alike. Bill Murray stars as zookeeper Frank, the man who will eat anything. After eating an egg, which had been in the mouth of a monkey, the film [...]
Yet another in the long line of American International Pictures film projects based on Edgar Allen Poe stories, ’War-Gods of the Deep’ is a rousing undersea adventure. The original title of the film was ’The City Under the Sea’ and that moniker [...]
"Doctor Zhivago" was the third grand epic by acclaimed director David Lean. While his earlier efforts "The Bridge on the River Kwai" and "Lawrence of Arabia" are widely hailed as two of the finest films ever created, many of [...]
Do you remember those days in elementary school when the teacher would wheel in the old 16mm projector, dim the lights, and crank up a worn-out educational film? Well, Skip Elsheimer of the A/V Geeks Educational Archive certainly does, and he’s [...]
I first saw ’Fritz the Cat’ during a midnight screening in college and, while I knew full well what to expect, I was still unprepared for the jarring juxtaposition between the cute animation style and the very adult and dark subject matter. Originally [...]