For over thirty years, British movie screens lit up regularly to the leering, naughty bits antics of the "Carry On" film series. Between 1958 and 1992, there were thirty-one "Carry On" movies. Each one sported the same formula: spoof a [...]
Far from the madding crowds who haunted multiplexes endlessly this past summer, "Spider-Man" arrives amid fresh hype on DVD from Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment. Not content with having what will probably be this year’s most successful [...]
At first sight ’Unfaithful’ appears to be a lot like ’Fatal Attraction, ’ a previous film by the same director, Adrian Lyne – and that’s what I expected. Instead, the movie turns out to have much more in common with ’Basic Instinct’ – [...]
At first glance, ’Barbie as Rapunzel’ might appear as just another quick come-on designed to motivate little girls to plead, beg, and even shed a shrewd tear in convincing Mom and Dad to buy this most certainly vacuous disc disguised as entertainment. [...]
We haven’t seen a lot of live action family movies on DVD lately and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment’s new release ’Like Mike’ is certainly one of the most current films in the genre. Featuring wanna-be-cool kid-rapper Lil’ Bow Wow I [...]
A quick look at the credits of "Glengarry Glen Ross" tells you immediately that the movie you are about to see must be something very special. I’m not limiting myself to the cast in this case but also include writer David Mamet, who has [...]
Another one of Disney’s Read Along DVD titles just ended up on my desk. This time it’s the one for ’Lilo & Stitch.’ These DVDs are conceptualized to be learning tools that help your children read or learn and improve on a different language, [...]
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment has a number of international titles in their library and so once in a while we get to see some great foreign films on DVD – through the presentation quality of those international films is oftentimes unpredictable. [...]
Central Park Media is continuing their line-up with another release of the anime TV series ’Patlabor.’ ’Volume 2’ contains the series’ episodes 6 through 10. Each one of the 25-minute episodes features four chapter stops, as well as a fifth for [...]
During the 80s, Hong Kong brought forth a good number of fantasy films and especially spurred by the success of Tsui Hark’s 1987 ’A Chinese Ghost Story’ other films meddled with the same themes. ’Golden Swallow’ is one such film, released in [...]
