On April 15, 2001 Joey Ramone (Jeff Hyman), front man for the seminal New York punk rock band The Ramones, passed away. In the wake of this unexpected tragedy, fans began pulling out old albums and CDs to fondly revisit the energetic music that made the [...]
I began this project remembering that I might still have the golden ticket theaters handed out to patrons during the 1971 theatrical run of "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory." After digging around my garage, amid some View Master reels and [...]
Have you ever bought one of those glamorous film books that promise to give you ’Everything you ever wanted to know about your favorite movies?’ only to be utterly disappointed by the mindless reiteration of material that is readily available from [...]
Among the countless Anime releases, it is often hard to find films that offer more than just plain made-for-TV production values and content. ’Oh My Goddess’ is one such series of Japanese animations that is now coming to DVD courtesy of genre [...]
Due to the nature of the majority of films that I review, I rarely get to use phrases such as "the most important film of the year" or "Oscar contender", but that all change with this review. "Memento" is certainly the most [...]
When Wolfgang Petersen’s 1984 adaptation of Michael Ende’s epic novel ’The Neverending Story’ was first released, one critic astutely referred to it as ’the first post-modern, self reflexive fantasy film.’ Escaping school bullies, young [...]
Some of our younger readers here at DVDReview.com may not realize that before the popular TV series ’Buffy, the Vampire Slayer’ with Sarah Michelle Gellar appeared, there was a feature film of the same name. While the title is the same for both [...]
The early 1980s saw the brief revival of the werewolf film with the release of both ’An American Werewolf in London’ and ’The Howling.’ The special effects craft had finally reached a point where it was feasible to depict the step-by-step [...]
In my opinion, ’Phantasm II’ is in a tie with Chuck Russell’s ’The Blob’, as the most underrated horror film of the 80s. This film combines exciting action, interesting (if not slightly dated) special effects, and competent acting. When a meteor [...]
In 1974, director Brian DePalma brought forth a unique and biting satire of the day’s most celebrated entertainment vehicles: horror films and rock music. In "Phantom of the Paradise, " DePalma offered his twisted yet calculated vision of an [...]
