DVD

Bear in the Big Blue House: Shapes, Sounds, & Colo

August 4, 2000 // 0 Comments

This is the third DVD from the Disney Channel series ’Bear in the Big Blue House, ’ and it continues the tradition of quality shown in the first DVD. ’Shapes, Sounds, & Colors with Bear’ features three full-length episodes from the series. [...]

Metallica: S & M

August 4, 2000 // 0 Comments

"Don’t we already have that on laserdisc?" "Isn’t that on TBS every other day?" "But you hate that movie!" These responses may be familiar to those of you who are like me and insist on getting certain things on DVD. There [...]

Scandal

August 4, 2000 // 0 Comments

America’s most recent brush with politics and heavy petting notwithstanding, sex scandals have been around as long as men have ruled and women have allowed them to. The Profumo sex scandal of the 1960’s rocked England and helped bring down the then [...]

Cannibal Ferox

August 3, 2000 // 0 Comments

Image Entertainment has hidden a some additional footage on Grindhouse Releasing’s Deluxe Edition of Umberto Lenzi’s horror shocker “Cannibal Ferox.” Bring up the disc’s main menu and from there go to the “Grindhouse Releasing” section. Once [...]

Halloween 5

August 3, 2000 // 0 Comments

As we all know, Hollywood is motivated by trends. One trend that has seemed to die out in the last decade (outside of the home video market) are film series. The eighties saw the market get "sequelitis", especially when it came to horror films. [...]

Magnolia

August 3, 2000 // 0 Comments

In the world of Hollywood commercialism where every movie is "artificially designed" to appeal to audiences rather than be a true expression of a filmmakers’ vision, it is rare to find films these days that are noticeably extroverted and [...]

Kelly’s Heroes

August 2, 2000 // 0 Comments

’Kelly’s Heroes’ is a war movie in much the same way that ’The Dirty Dozen, ’ ’Operation Petticoat,’ or ’Three Kings’ can be considered war movies. While the conflict provides the setting and the main characters are all military men, the [...]

The Sound Of Music

August 2, 2000 // 0 Comments

It has made its way into the hearts of millions and generations cherish the beauty and the music of Robert Wise’s film adaptation of "The Sound Of Music." Winner of five Academy Awards, this movie is the inspiring tale of the Von Trapp family [...]

Steel Magnolias

August 1, 2000 // 0 Comments

’Steel Magnolias’ is the touching and funny story of a group of women in a Louisiana small town. Over a period of time we become part of their lives and share their hopes, dreams and miseries with them, as their stories unfolds in the local beauty [...]

Angela’s Ashes

August 1, 2000 // 0 Comments

The art of transferring a book to the silver screen is fraught with peril. Too often the results simply don’t live up to expectations. When the book in question is a runaway bestseller, Pulitzer Prize winner, and flat out cultural phenomena then the [...]
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