In their line of IMAX releases, Warner Home Video is now presenting us with the thrilling ’T-Rex: Back To The Cretaceous.’ Unlike most other IMAX films, this is not so much a documentary per se, but rather a thrill-filled 45-minute film that heavily [...]
The release of the video collection “Icky Flix” by “The Residents” contains some exciting additional footage hidden on the DVD. From the disc’s main menu – not one of the “cube” menus – select “More Info” at the bottom of the [...]
"Traffic, " Steven Soderbergh’s sprawling mosaic of a population under siege by a virulent enemy called drugs, arrives on DVD from USA Home Entertainment. The film won four Academy Awards, including Best Director (Soderbergh), Best Supporting [...]
We’re all familiar with the urban paranoia (’Arlington Road’) or even rural paranoia (’The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’) films, but what about swamp paranoia? That’s the focus of Walter Hill’s 1981 thriller ’Southern Comfort’, which is set [...]
Replacing their original release of "The Fugitive" from 1997, Warner Home Video is now presenting a Special Edition of Andrew Davis’ gripping action-thriller with a brand new transfer of the film and some exciting bonus materials. Opening with [...]
William Wyler’s epic Western ’The Big Country’ stars Gregory Peck as Jim McKay, an East Coast born sea captain engaged to Patricia Terrell (Carroll Baker), daughter of Texas cattle baron Henry Terrell (Charles Bickford). Trading in his sextant for a [...]
Following the success of his previous television series, "Secret Agent," Patrick McGoohan decided to try something very different. The result was "The Prisoner," a 17 episode series that first aired on British television in 1967. The [...]
Occasionally a really good movie is released on DVD that flies entirely under the radar of the public. I would consider ’Panic’ such a film, a first rate noir film that is now available on DVD courtesy of Artisan Home Entertainment. It is the story of [...]
Following the funny antics of a fictional one-trick pony band through their high and the following lows, ’That Thing You Do’ is an entertaining film that takes us back in time to the 60s where shaking hips and 5 inch-long hair were considered [...]
Roger Corman is an interesting director in many ways. He has made some terrible movies in his long-standing career, but every time he makes a good movie, it turns out to be a really great one. There is not much in-between in his work. When in 1960 he [...]
