Chinese horror films are always an interesting blend that is very different from the American horror fare. Horrific and explicit, these films are typically also quite humorous and more importantly laden with terrific action sequences. ’Spooky [...]
Released in 1996, Edward Zwick’s ’Courage Under Fire’ was the first major motion picture to use the events of the 1990-91 Gulf War as a backdrop. While the setting may be contemporary, the issues tackled in the film are universal to all powerful war [...]
Every few years, we get an updated version of the ’crude college movie.’ The latest pretender to the ’Animal House’ throne is ’Road Trip’, featuring the mysteriously popul MTV comic Tom Green. Fortunately, Green is only the narrator of this [...]
There are not too many movies from the silent era of filmmaking that have built a reputation for themselves that lasts until this very day. Only few film have left such an indelible impression on multiple generations that everyone is intimately familiar [...]
Recently, we’ve seen a growing number of television shows making their way to DVD. The latest offering is the hit series ’Friends’ from Warner Home Video. Instead of releasing the shows in chronological order starting with Season One, as has been [...]
Ever wonder what chickens do when you’re not watching? Okay, probably not but thus is the premise of Dreamworks animated feature ’Chicken Run’, a terrifically entertaining film for kids and adults alike. ’Chicken Run’ marks the debut [...]
On Vanguard’s release of the original 1974 version of the movie “Gone In 60 Seconds” there is an interesting feature hidden in the menus. From the disc’s main menu go to the “Credits.” There, highlight the menu entry for the “Main Menu” [...]
Some twenty-odd years ago the thought of having one’s conversation surreptitiously recorded by dark agencies had an exciting air of Cold War paranoia about it, but it wasn’t a situation that most people really had to worry about. Fast forward to the [...]
The thought of seeing an updated version of ’The Invisible Man’ sounds intriguing, especially in the light that many of the required effects shots could be done masterfully in CGI these day and as such it is a shocking disappointment that the big [...]
’The Road to El Dorado’ is the second full-length animated feature from Dreamworks Home Video. While their first foray into animation was 1998’s very serious, visually-sumptuous ’Prince of Egypt, ’ this sophomore effort is a light-hearted, [...]
