Don’t let the poorly done, nerdy cover of ’God, Sex & Apple Pie’ ‘mislead you. This is actually a very funny and smart film with great performances and truly poignant dialogues. The story revolves around a group of friends getting together [...]
I had ’Cronos’ sitting on my desk for some time and eventually got around to taking a closer look at this Mexican Guillermo Del Toro film. It turned out to be a nice surprise. An atmospheric horror film with style, good characters and an intriguing [...]
Australian films are not a common commodity here in the US for some reason and when ’Dirty Deeds’ showed up on my desk I was eager to check it out. What I found was a thriller with a dark humor that almost reminded me of Coen Brothers film. Think [...]
’Young Sherlock Holmes’ is a charming film that has captured many hearts with its intriguing premise, the plot development and the overall Victorian atmosphere. Combined with the cool special effects and good acting, it is a thoroughly enjoyable film [...]
A year ago, Tai Seng released "The Kung Fu Master," on DVD, telling the first part of an epic saga about Hung Hei-Kwun and his uphill battle against the Ching dynasty. With "Revenge Of The Kung Fu Master" the studio now dishes out the [...]
In 1982 a film appeared in theaters around the globe that was magical and completely different from anything we had ever seen on the silver screen. Jim Henson and Frank Oz, the inventors of numerous puppet TV specials, including the award-winning and [...]
I still vividly remember the 1997 North-Hollywood bank robbery in which two heavily armed bank robbers held the police at bay for almost an hour. ’44 Minutes’ is a film adaptation of the events of that fateful day and it manages to conjure up these [...]
Based on the TV series ’Rescue Heroes, ’ Artisan is now delivering the first full-length movie, starring the action rescue heroes from the show. It tells the story how the heroes have to work together to find out what causes terrible electrical storms [...]
Well, the wait is finally over and the Extended Version of Peter Jackson’s second installment in "The Lord Of The Rings" trilogy has finally arrived in its Extended Edition. I deliberately avoided all the posts and reports on the Internet [...]
A spy thriller based on John Le Carré’s best-selling book, ’The Looking Glass War’ is a great cold-war spy movie that truly makes you think. Consistently the movie asks the question whether a ’mission’ should be worth the life of a human [...]
