DVD
Toy Story 2
In Buena Vista Home Entertainment’s release of “Toy Story 2, ” which can be found in the “Toy Story 2-Pack” as well as the “Toy Story Ultimate Toy Box, ” you can find an interesting feature that is not easy to detect. During Buzz [...]
Untamed Heart
1993 seemed to be a year in which romance flourished, full-force, on the big screen. With sweeping, epic love stories like Vincent Ward’s "Map of the Human Heart," Martin Scorsese’s "The Age of Innocence" and James Ivory’s [...]
The Astounding She-Monster
Ronnie Ashcroft’s dreadful calling card to the cinema begins as a heist caper, with the abduction of a prominent socialite. The kidnappers almost reach freedom when they encounter the glowing She-Monster on a deserted (what else?) highway. Smashing [...]
The Five Senses
To understand exactly what writer/director Jeremy Podeswa tries to accomplish with ’The Five Senses, ’ it’s first necessary to know where the idea for this quirky little film originated. After reading Diane Ackerman’s remarkable book, ’A Natural [...]
Winstanley
Almost ten years after completing their remarkable debut film — a masterpiece of independent filmmaking entitled ’It Happened Here’ — Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo teamed up once again to tackle another historical drama. While their [...]
What Lies Beneath
When "What Lies Beneath" was trailered in theaters, I didn’t care much for the film because the story seemed predictable and the trailer obviously gave away most of the film’s highlights and plot points. As a result of this, what I [...]
Six Days In Roswell
Up until now, the rules have been simple. A documentary is a film that documents an actual event, person, etc. A mockumentary is a film that imitates the style of a documentary, while telling the story of a fictional person or event. (It should be said [...]
Bring It On
There are those who say that popular media is intellectually bankrupt and may actually be making people dumber. I personally disagree with this, as I learned everything I know from movies and television and I’m a walking encyclopedia of fun-filled [...]