The explosive popularity of the DVD format has seen an influx of foreign titles to the American market. While discussion is usually limited to the rise in the availability of European horror titles, there has also been a surge in the number of releases [...]
When veteran director John Frankenheimer takes a seat in the director’s chair of any movie, expectations are traditionally high. After all, Frankenheimer has created some of the most memorable action thrillers of the past 40 years, and the filmmaker [...]
’Sleepaway Camp’ is an odd little film, which was a late entry into the ’Slasher Cycle’ of the early 80s. The movie plays like a cross between ’Friday the 13th’ and the Bill Murray comedy ’Meatballs’. (It’s also unusual because there is [...]
Certainly everyone is by now familiar with the "sexual favors" trailer that Universal used to bring their film "Erin Brockovich" to people’s attention. The trailer certainly helped get people’s attention, although it may have [...]
Director Ron Shelton seems to have cornered the market on sports movies that double as romantic comedies and classic buddy films. His surprise hit, ’Bull Durham,’ revealed the steamy underside of small-town minor league baseball while ’Tin Cup’ [...]
Hailed by many as one of the best Star Trek movies, if not THE best one, "Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan" contains all the elements that made the series so successful. While most Star Trek feature films, especially the latest ones, appear like [...]
While movies themselves are usually released as a constant flow throughout the years, genres typically move in waves. What is hip today is gone tomorrow and replaced by another "fad" the industry is following. The current wave of horror films [...]
To celebrate one of Hollywood’s most acclaimed and accomplished talents Warner Home Video has created a dedicated box set called the "Clint Eastwood Collection" which contains six of Eastwood’s best known films. To create this package, [...]
Documentaries are always a mixed bag. Unless the specialize extremely on a narrow field, they are typically worthless because they just don’t manage to convey the wealth of information they try to cover. A documentary of the subject of the Roman Empire [...]
One genre which has definitely flourished on DVD is EuroHorror. Independent companies such as Anchor Bay Entertainment and Image Entertainment have scoured the film vaults of Europe and brought many fascinating gems of European terror to DVD. (Fangoria [...]
