It’s certainly frustrating when a recent movie is released on DVD with no extras. What makes this practice even more frustrating and mysterious is that Anchor Bay Entertainment can seemingly effortlessly release a 40-year old movie with a ton of great [...]
Unlike the Michael Bay blockbuster of the same name, Gordon Chan’s "Armageddon, " also known under its original title "Tian di xiong xin," does not predict an end of the world by forces from outer space, but from force much more [...]
When the only clever thing that a film has going for it is the title, you know you’re in trouble, and I don’t expect to win a Pulitzer for reporting that ’Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers’ isn’t a very good movie. Private detective Jack Chandler (Jay [...]
After directing only three films, I don’t know if Sean Penn can qualify as an auteur, but his movies certainly have a signature style. Penn tends to make films featuring realistic characters, which have a fatal flaw and find themselves facing [...]
On the new Special Edition of “Dogma” by Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment you can find a few hidden extras that are not immediately obvious to the naked eye. Insert the set’s first disc and on the main menu, highlight “Play Movie.” Now press [...]
It seemed very odd when two films concerning high school cheerleaders, ’Bring it On’ and ’Sugar & Spice’, were released theatrically six months apart, as this isn’t a genre which has been explored much in the past. ’Bring it On’ is a [...]
Continuing their episodic series of releases of the television SciFi series ’Farscape, ’ in this sixth installment ADV Films is bringing us the episodes ’Till The Blood Runs Clear’ and ’Rhapsody In Blue.’ While ’Till The Blood Runs Clear’ [...]
Following the (financial) success of "Friday the 13th, Part 2" and "Friday the 13th, Part 3", it probably didn’t surprise people in the entertainment industry that producer Sean Cunningham and director Steve Miner wanted to work [...]
The mid-1980s saw the arrival of many wonderful fantasy films for children such as ’The Neverending Story, ’ ’The Dark Crystal, ’ and ’The Labyrinth.’ Sadly, this genre never seemed to take hold with critics or audiences and, while the [...]
As we all know, there’s nothing quite like when an old favorite makes its way to DVD, so that we may enjoy it in all of its digital splendor. However, the recent release of "The Muppet Movie" has left me feeling a bit saddened. When I first [...]
