I’m sure that ’The In Crowd’ seemed like a good idea at the time. The film is a combination of ’Beverly Hills, 90210’, ’Wild Things’, and a ’whodunnit’ film. It presents us with a group of spoiled rich kids who are spending their summer [...]
For over three years now, Columbia TriStar Home Video has been one of the few publishers who have supplied a steady stream of classic movies to DVD fans. Although the market for those classic movies has traditionally been very limited since DVD fans do [...]
It’s obvious that 20th Century Fox Home Video’s motto is ’If it’s not broke, don’t fix it.’ when it comes to ’The X-Files: The Complete Second Season’. This handsome box-set is almost identical in appearance and special features as the [...]
Replacing the previously released "flipper" DVD of David Fincher’s disturbing thriller "Se7en, " New Line Home Video has made sure to give DVD fans plenty of incentive to go out and pick this title up. Presented as a 2-disc Platinum [...]
’Dolphins’ is the stunning follow-up to MacGillivray Freeman Films’ previous undersea IMAX adventure, ’The Living Sea.’ Like its predecessor, ’Dolphins’ also features a celebrity narrator (Pierce Brosnan) and music by Sting. While the [...]
Sporting a gorgeous transfer, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment’s new DVD release of the 1967 musical "Doctor Dolittle" indeed rekindles childhood memories of an imagination fired by visions of a two-headed dancing llama or casual [...]
Despite anything that full-frame pundits might say, when you watch a lot of DVDs, you begin to ignore the letterbox framing and you usually don’t notice the black bars at the top and bottom of the screen. So, I was about 20 minutes into the Vivid [...]
Clearly one of the best movies of the year, Ridley Scott’s "Gladiator" is a cinematic masterpiece the like you don’t get to see all too often any more these days. Shot in the epic tradition of monumental films of the 50s, [...]
So, I’m looking at the box for the ’Death Mask’ DVD and I see the name James Best on it about five different places. And I’m thinking to myself, ’James Best. Where do I know that name from? Did I go to school with him?’ Well, I pop in the DVD [...]
It’s a common occurrence to hear people say, "They don’t make them like they used to." (For me, "used to" would mean the 1980s!) But, that doesn’t mean that filmmakers aren’t trying to "make them like they used to." [...]
