DVD

Blade

December 1, 1998 // 0 Comments

“Blade’s” anamorphic widescreen transfer restores the film’s original 2.35:1 aspect ratio. The image is detailed and sharp, without compression artifacts, color bleeding or noise. Many of the film’s scenes are shot under difficult, often dark [...]

Star Trek – First Contact

December 1, 1998 // 0 Comments

This release from Paramount Home Video features the film’s original theatrical 2.35:1 aspect ratio in a flawless anamorphic widescreen transfer. The color is sharp with lots of detail.Color reproduction is very good with strong, naturally rendered [...]

Rolling Stones: Bridges To Babylon

December 1, 1998 // 0 Comments

If there has ever been a band totally deserving of the title of "bad boys of rock & roll, " it is the Rolling Stones. Amazingly, this band is still going strong in their 35th year. It seems as if all the drug and alcohol excess that [...]

Alexander Nevsky / Ivan The Terrible

December 1, 1998 // 0 Comments

Much of the cinematic vocabulary which we take for granted was once considered radical and new. In the early days of movie making, directors like DW Griffith and Sergei Eisenstein put a great deal of thought and effort into using cinema in ways no other [...]

A Woman Scorned

December 1, 1998 // 0 Comments

When it comes to packaging and presenting adult titles, Vivid Video is clearly leading the pack with no one even remotely close to them. Even in the market of feature film releases, there is not a single publisher that could hold a candle to Vivid when it [...]

Small Soldiers

December 1, 1998 // 0 Comments

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 [...]

City Of Angels

November 8, 1998 // 0 Comments

It’s hard enough to find truly stylish romantic movies these days, and it is even harder to find and experience romance in our busy real lives. "City of Angels" will resurrect that "true romantic" feeling deep inside you. The film [...]

Anastasia

November 1, 1998 // 0 Comments

They say that when it rains, it pours and that is certainly the case with high-quality animation on DVD. After a serious drought where there were no high-profile animation releases (save for "A Bug’s Life" and "Antz") November is [...]

Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas

November 1, 1998 // 0 Comments

I missed "Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas" during its theatrical run. Fortunately, now that Universal Home Video have released this title on DVD, I’ve finally been able to see this exceptional film. "Exceptional" might actually be the [...]

Treasures Of The Twilight Zone

November 1, 1998 // 0 Comments

There’s an interesting moment in the interview with Rod Serling on this new disk from Panasonic. Mike Wallace is talking with Serling about his "upcoming" TV show, "The Twilight Zone". By this time, Serling was already established as [...]
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