Reviews
The Osterman Weekend
’Bloody Sam’ Peckinpah’s final film is now available on DVD, courtesy of Anchor Bay Entertainment. Having spared no expense, the studio has created a commemorative 2-disc edition for the film for all its fans, which is quite interesting, as ’The [...]
One Million Years B.C.
From the British studio that paired Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing into cinema history, Hammer’s 1966 remake of "One Million Years B.C. (from a 1940 Hal Roach film) marked another historic, albeit unlikely, cleaving: 1960’s bombshell Raquel [...]
Star Trek: Voyager: Season 1
"Star Trek Voyager" came along late in the "Star Trek" renaissance, launching in 1995. The program, designed to run concurrent with "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and "Deep Space Nine," brought fans another [...]
Spy Kids 3D: Game Over
For multi-tasking moviemaker Robert Rodriguez, family matters. So much so that Rodriguez’s "Spy Kids" movies have become a legitimate franchise. Why shouldn’t they? 2001’s "Spy Kids" retooled every James Bond cliché to a modest [...]
Xena: Warrior Princess: Season 3
I must admit: I caught bits and pieces of both the syndicated shows "Hercules" and its offshoot "Xena: Warrior Princess" when both originally aired in the 1990s. I never really got into the fan base of either show, mainly because after [...]
Ransom: Special Edition
Ron Howard’s action-thriller "Ransom" is an exciting ride with some wild and unexpected twists and turns, a wickedly exhilarating movie experience. Although the movie exhibits some weaknesses in the script and in its elaboration of the [...]
The Final Countdown
When I originally saw "The Final Countdown" in theaters in 1980 I never realized it was such a "small" movie. Small in terms of its budget, of course, and not in terms of the achievement, because as this DVD just reminded me, "The [...]
Cabin Fever
A group of young people is driving to a remote cabin in the woods for some partying when all of a sudden they are haunted by unimaginable horrors in this independent low budget film. No, I am not talking about Sam Raimi’s seminal budget horror film [...]
Runaway Jury
French politician Georges Clemenceau once remarked: "War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men." Jury "consultant" Rankin Fitch (Gene Hackman) embraces a more adaptable and personally lucrative philosophy for our overly [...]