DVD

Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary

December 9, 1999 // 0 Comments

If you were like me and missed “The Saturday Night Live 25th Anniversary Special” when it originally aired on NBC, Trimark has done us a favor and released the extravaganza on DVD. Like every episode of “SNL”, the special is hit-or-miss, but [...]

U2: Rattle and Hum

December 9, 1999 // 0 Comments

As we all know, you can’t please all of the people all of the time. With that in mind, I still had the same problems with “U2: Rattle and Hum” viewing it today, that I did eleven years ago when I saw it in the theater. Namely, I didn’t agree with [...]

The Sea Wolves

December 9, 1999 // 0 Comments

Warner Home Video has just put out “The Sea Wolves”, a 1980 film starring Gregory Peck, David Niven, Roger Moore and Trevor Howard among other stars, and despite the lack of any extras, the disc at least contains an anamorphic widescreen version as [...]

Thesis

December 8, 1999 // 0 Comments

During the latter half of the 90s, we’ve seen a definite decline in the number of great thrillers coming out of Europe. Also, we haven’t had the kind of auteurs from that part of the world like we had in the 80s. Argento’s recent films have been [...]

The Wall

December 8, 1999 // 0 Comments

Sony / Columbia Music has hidden some interesting material in the menus of the release of the Pink Floyd rock-opera epos “The Wall”. On almost every menu screen on the disc you can see a symbol in one of the corners of the screen. Through the regular [...]

Free Enterprise

December 6, 1999 // 0 Comments

Pioneer Entertainment has once again hidden some bonus material on a DVD. This one can be found on the release of the Star Trek spoof “Free Enterprise”. From the disc’s main menu, go to the “Special Features”. Press the left arrow key on your [...]

Body Snatchers

December 6, 1999 // 0 Comments

There’s an old saying in Hollywood that goes, "Don’t remake the same movie too many times." Okay, so I made that up, but I’m sure that someone has said that at some time in the past. No matter the case, when "Body Snatchers", the [...]

Jenteal Loves Rocco

December 3, 1999 // 0 Comments

One of the latest release from Vivid Interactive is "Jenteal Loves Rocco", teaming up two of Vivid’s hottest adult actors in a movie together. Although taking a rather traditional route without much of a coherent story, director Toni English [...]

Entrapment

December 3, 1999 // 0 Comments

It has actually been quite a while since we had seen a great movie that has its narrative focused on a master thief, who is out to snatch some highly valued piece of art. A number of classic movies have used it as a recipe, and immediately Jules [...]

Chinatown

December 2, 1999 // 0 Comments

Roman Polanski’s "Chinatown" has long risen to the Olympus of some of the best movies ever made. It is a timeless film that never seems to age really, despite the fact that it actually is a period piece. Apart from Polanski’s masterful [...]
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