There’s no denying that director Spike Lee can make a thought-provoking, polarizing film. Unfortunately, his outspoken nature tends to color the public perception of his work and his latest effort, "Bamboozled," is yet another in a long line [...]
For those of you who aren’t familiar with ’The Ring’ phenomenon, it’s one of the biggest things to hit Japan in years. This horror tale began as a series of novels, and was then transformed into a TV movie. After that, a feature film was made in [...]
While the quality of the Disney animated films which have appeared over the past 15 years may vary greatly from movie to movie, you typically know what to expect when you sit down to view one of these films. (Here, I’m speaking of Disney’s traditional [...]
In continuation of their Lucio Fulci Collection, Anchor Bay Entertainment has prepared a completely uncut version of the director’s ’The House By The Cemetery, ’ which has 9 minutes inserted back into the film compared to the theatrical version. [...]
Leni Riefenstahl’s notorious propaganda film "Triumph of the Will" is a mixed bag – even more so if you are indeed German, as I am. I had never had the chance to see this film before, as it seems to be censored in Germany, and was indeed [...]
Only a few defining images from the silent film era still remain as a part of our collective consciousness — Charlie Chaplin’s ambling gait, Harold Lloyd dangling from a clock tower, the robot Maria from "Metropolis," and, of course, [...]
Despite the fact that I have an interest in Euro-horror and that he’s made like a gazillion movies, I’ve never seen a Jess Franco film until now. (I have ’Virgin Among the Living Dead’ on VHS, but I’ve never gotten around to watching it.) Well, [...]
While movies are certainly not real, they often show an accurate portrayal of reality. However, there are many times when fictional films totally miss the mark. The happens all the times when movies deal with mental illness. The mentally ill in the movies [...]
1981’s ’Superman II, ’ continuing the adventures begun in Richard Donner’s 1978 epic, makes its DVD debut with considerably less fanfare than its newly restored predecessor. While Warner Home Video clearly directed its efforts in repairing the [...]
Wednesday, December 20, 1978. I had just gotten over a bout with walking pneumonia. One benefit was it kept me out of the 10th grade for four days. The down side was that it prevented me from seeing "Superman: The Movie" during its opening [...]
