In the past, most critics (but not me) have considered ’Mallrats’ to be writer/director Kevin Smith’s nadir. Not anymore. Now we have ’Clerks: The Animated Series’ to lambast. This show originally aired on ABC, although only two of the original [...]
In the past, we’ve discussed the fashion in which Hollywood works in trends. Typically, we speak of this in terms of theatrical releases. But, recently, we’ve seen a trend in home video releases. It appears that all hell is breaking loose, as the [...]
In the realm of film criticism, movies must sometimes be judged in the same way as just about anything else in life, that is, did it accomplish what it set out to do? For example, did the comedy make you laugh? Did the drama make you cry? When viewed in [...]
The recent urban drama/thriller ’Turn it Up’ is coming to DVD from New Line Home Video. The transfer has been letterboxed at 1.85:1 and is enhanced for 16×9 TVs. The image is razor sharp, and its clarity reveals no intrusive noise or grain. The [...]
On Troma’s 2-disc set of the schlockfest “Terror Firmer” you can find a number of interesting hidden and entertaining features. On the first disc’s main menu, hit “666” – the number of the Beast – and you will see a screen saying [...]
William Wyler’s "Ben Hur" is an epic that epitomizes everything that grand filmmaking is about. Whether it is the film’s considerable running length of 222 minutes, its extremely wide aspect ratio of 2.76:1, its number of extras, the level [...]
I’m sure that there are those of you who wonder why HBO Home Video bothers to release their in-house movies on DVD. The answer is simple. They do this so that those individuals who don’t subscribe to HBO will have the opportunity to see wonderful [...]
Watching an Agatha Christie movie is like enjoying a cup of warm mulled wine on a rainy night. Even if viewed now as dusty relics, her mysteries spoke to the autocrat as well as the moralist demanding justice. 1978’s "Death on the Nile" was [...]
Buena Vista Home Entertainment has hidden some interesting hidden features on their release of “Highlander 4: Endgame.” The hidden features are presented in the form of “Watcher Files.” In total there are 6 six clips that will eventually also help [...]
"A man who refuses to acknowledge his God is unwise to set foot in the desert. The Arabs have a saying, Madam, that the desert is the garden of Allah." Just what Count Antioni (Basil Rathbone) means by this is fuzzy, but it is not the first or [...]
