Return To Me
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." [...]
DVD
House By The Cemetery
I’ll try to avoid getting on my Lucio Fulci soapbox and get right into reviewing the DVD of ’House by the Cemetery’. Forget the videotape that was released in the U.S. under the same title. This is the uncut version of Lucio Fulci’s 1981 film. The [...]
Titan A. E.
When most films are released, the filmmakers have a target audience in mind. Be it a certain age group, or other demographic, the marketing is usually aimed towards a certain group of people. With animated motion pictures, we usually see the film being [...]
Treasures From American Film Archives
There’s no more familiar artwork than "The Last Supper." But Leonardo daVinci’s fresco has long since ceased to represent either the artist’s own hand or the surface of color he created. A risky technique daVinci tried failed disastrously. [...]
Annie Get Your Gun
Broadway’s decline in new musicals has been our gain in revivals of some of the true classics. One of the most successful of recent years has been "Annie Get Your Gun, " reworked to give more substance to the real-life tale of famed frontier [...]
Born On The Fourth Of July
As the second of three installments in director Oliver Stone’s Vietnam trilogy (the other two films being "Platoon" and "Heaven & Earth"), "Born on the Fourth of July" focuses more on the aftermath of this horrible [...]
Toy Story: The Ultimate Toy Box
If I were handing out nominations for the most improved home video company when it comes to DVD content, Buena Vista Home Video would have to be on that list. Sure, they still release some movie-only discs, but with titles such as the "Tarzan [...]
Escape From New York
Kurt Russell and director John Carpenter have made a few films together but in fans’ minds, their first concerted effort, "Escape From New York," appears to be the most fervently adored one. The reason is quite simple, I guess. The film has [...]
The Puppetoon Movie
When animation went digital, a terrible trade-off occurred. Digital technology may have made the inert photo-realistic; yet at its heart, animation isn’t about realism, it’s about style. Whether it’s pen to paper, brush to cel, or fingers to clay, [...]