Recently I was very impressed by Bette Midler’s touching, sensitive and dramatic performance as Jacqueline Susann in Universal’s release of "Isn’t She Great!" Now the dervish that is Bette Midler, is back in a drop-dead funny comedy… [...]
Does Hollywood create enough wholesome family films and do they put them out on DVD? Well, there is certainly not as much family entertainment available on DVD as on VHS, but every once in a while some great films come along nonetheless, like "My Dog [...]
"The Ninth Gate" returns director Roman Polanski to the supernatural turf previously tread in such earlier efforts as "Repulsion" and "Rosemary’s Baby." ("The Fearless Vampire Killers" played up more of the laughs [...]
After the success of the original ’Dragonheart, ’ Universal decided to create a sequel to the movie in which a young stable boy discovers Drake, a baby-dragon, and the last of its kind, hatchet from an egg that was rescued by Bowen. The film tells the [...]
Let me start this review by saying that "Evil Dead II" is one of my all-time favorite films, so it’s a pleasure to get to review it. Further, "Evil Dead II" is also one of the most misunderstood films of the past twenty years, and I [...]
Apart from a great feature presentation, Artisan Home Entertainment’s release of “The Ninth Gate” also contains a few dark, hidden features. From the disc’s main menu, go to the “Special Features” section. There highlight the “Trailers” [...]
The movie ’What Planet Are You From?’ has an interesting concept. Garry Shandling plays an alien from a planet which is ’way the hell out there’ in space and is inhabited solely by men. Shandling is sent to Earth, where his mission is to allow a [...]
Image Entertainment has undertaken to distribute a fascinating series of opera performances in association with Eagle Rock Entertainment. Image’s strategy is not to identify lead singers or conductors in their promotional information. This is probably a [...]
Just little more than year ago the thought of getting to see the entire "Planets Of The Apes" quintology on DVD appeared to be nothing but wishful thinking. Until one day during a visit at ’s offices in Burbank I managed to catch a glimpse of [...]
"Titus Andronicus" was William Shakespeare’s first tragedy and is widely condemned by scholars as being his worst play. They debate among themselves whether or not it’s a parody, a thinly veiled challenge to his chief rival Christopher [...]
