In the Bible, the word "Armageddon" names the location where the world begins to come to an end. Director Michael Bay’s "Armageddon" shows the end of the world in a different way. The film boasts amazing visual special effects, [...]
Everyone who ever went through a guitar-shredding phase and anyone who enjoyed listening to guitar-based music must have heard the name Steve Vai. Considered by many to be a guitar god because of the dexterity of his amazing fingers, his most striking [...]
“Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid” features a great black & white transfer. There are no compression artifacts visible in the picture anywhere in the film and shadow details usually very good. Since the films makes use of a large number of very old [...]
To say Tod Browning’s 1930 version of "Dracula" is a classic movie is still an understatement. The word to put this movie in its historic context has yet to be created. For almost 70 years now the images and sounds of this particular movie [...]
The folks over at Universal Home Video have dug deep into their film vault and come up with a great Technicolor classic for release on DVD. As the market matures, more and more publishers will decide to release more of the material that is suited for [...]
Writer and Director John Waters retains his taste for the odd, masked beneath a bright panorama of his hometown of Baltimore. “Pecker” transfer is the typically fantastic print that many consumers have come to expect from New Line Home Video. The [...]
Buena Vista Home Entertainment has released “The Waterboy” in the film’s original 1.85:1 widescreen aspect ratio. The image is sharp and well defined, exhibiting no compression artifacts, color bleeding or noise. The compression is very good, as we [...]
Director Wes Craven has had the fortune to build two solid franchises during his twenty-year career, both in the horror genre. While his "Scream" movies haunt mostly younger audiences these days, Wes Craven is also the father of Freddy Krueger, [...]
“Face/Off” is presented in an anamorphic transfer in its original 2.35:1 widescreen aspect ratio. The image is superb and flawless without even the slightest noise or pixelation. The overall picture is sharp and very well defined; shadows are solid [...]
Dreamworks Home Video have finally come around to also release their first films on DVD, as the last of the Hollywood holdouts. One of their first titles released is "Small Soldiers", a highly acclaimed family film, boasting some spectacular [...]
