A lot of controversy has surrounded the release of "Fight Club" both as a novel and the subsequent film by David Fincher. While the reason for the controversy can be easily spotted in the works, I found it generally less problematic after seeing [...]
In the mid-eighties, horror was searching for a new identity. The slasher cycle was all but dead, and the wave of zombie films was beginning to run its course. While filmmakers in America were floundering in rehashed ideas (save for films like [...]
Starring Deborah Kerr, Van Johnson and John Mills, ’The End Of The Affair’ is a stylish drama based on Graham Greene’s novel of the same name. Placed in London during the second World War, Sarah, the wife of a British civil servant falls in love [...]
’No Way Out’ is an engaging politic thriller that features a great cast with Kevn Costner and Gene Hackman in the leads. It nicely portrays the power play in Washington’s political circles, where a young commander becomes the target of a witch hunt [...]
One of the most impressive things about DVDs thus far (besides the picture and sound quality) is the number of catalog titles that have been released. Most of the studios have been doing an admirable job of mixing new releases with older films. The only [...]
In the summer of 1816, the great English poets Lord Byron and Percy Shelley, Byron’s biographer Dr. John Polidori and Shelley’s then-fiancé, Mary Godwin gathered at a villa in Switzerland. One night, they challenged each other to create a ghost [...]
"I can see the Dead!" – no, you are not reading the review for "The Sixth Sense" – this line opens Italian goremaster Lucio Fulci’s "City Of The Living Dead, " which is also known under its alternative title [...]
What starts out like a very atmospheric thriller, quickly turns out as a court room drama that revolves around a contrived murder case. A woman is slaughtered in her beach house and her shattered husband hires a lawyer to unravel the mysteries of the [...]
In their "Alfred Hitchcock Collection", Universal is regularly releasing restored films of the masterful director, combined with insightful supplements that add depth to these gems that made movie history. The most recent release in the series [...]
Disney has only been distributing their ’Gold Collection’ titles for a few months now, but they’ve already hit a stumbling block. After the fairly impressive work on ’The Aristocats’, I was very surprised by the overall poor quality of the DVD [...]
