The much ballyhooed comeback of Santana has been the material of a media feeding frenzy for months now, and although Carols and his band had never really disappeared, people simply had lost the band out of their sight. Powerful and updated, Santana [...]
In our high-tech world, it is very easy for things to become obsolete. Your computer, appliances, home-theater system may be the cutting edge of technology one day, and totally incompatible the next. The same goes for DVDs as well. There is a long history [...]
From Broadway in the Twenties came the ’college musical, ’ a genre unto itself. "Good News" (1927) was a prime example of it. The plot posed two burning questions: will the home football team win? and will the paths of true love run smooth? [...]
"A View to a Kill" has the dubious distinction of being both Roger Moore’s swan song as special agent 007 and one of the most critically-lambasted offerings in the entire James Bond series. Poor Roger, he probably should have hung up his [...]
’But I’m a Cheerleader’ is one of those films that has a funny and clever central idea that would’ve made a great ’Saturday Night Live’ skit or a nice short film, but doesn’t work as a full-length feature. Natasha Lyonne stars as Megan, a [...]
Not since Wolfgang Petersen’s intense TV production "Das Boot" almost 20 years ago have we seen a truly impressive movie that took viewers into the steel bowels of a World War II submarine, allowing us to take the perspective of those men [...]
There is a nice and rare little hidden gem on Disney’s Gold Collection release of the animated “The Adventures Of Ichabod And Mr. Toad, ” Disney’s take on “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “The Wind in the Willows.” The disc contains a [...]
Recently, we’ve reached a point where there don’t seem to be many true independent films anymore. Independent films are so vogue that they play at the local multiplex and scarf up awards right and left. And I know that there is an over-generalization [...]
’The Midnight Hour’ is a made for TV movie that originally aired in 1985 on ABC. Featuring a veritable who’s who of Hollywood has-beens, this cheesy little monster movie is not without its charms. It’s Halloween in the quiet New England town of [...]
Everyone loves Scooby Doo and his friends, the Mystery, Inc. gang, when they solve mysterious cases and visit eerie places. Warner Home Video has created a new feature length adventure that sends Scooby on a collision course with alien invaders. [...]
