Hot on the heels of the impressive box-office performance of ’The Others’, Artisan Home Entertainment brings director Alejandro Amenabar’s second film ’Open Your Eyes’ to DVD. Unlike ’The Others’, which is a period piece, ’Open Your [...]
For most people, movies exist solely for entertainment. For others, films are a way to temporarily escape reality and visit a time or place that one normally could not. I fall squarely into that second category, which is why I typically don’t like [...]
Despite the rumor spread across the internet, Universal’s release of ’Halloween II’ has never been planned to be anything but a bare-bones release, which makes this disc only marginally better than the previous, Universal-licensed release by [...]
Certain films seemed to exist as nothing more than cineplex filler, keeping a flickering image on the screens in the months between major studio releases. ’The Beast Within’ was definitely this sort of film though it served its purpose well at the [...]
During the 80s and 90s, those looking for a fix from the East turned to Hong Kong and it’s over-the-top action and fantasy films. As we enter the new millennium, it appears that the new hotspot for Asian entertainment will be Japan and it’s creepy and [...]
"Hannibal, " both the Thomas Harris novel and Ridley Scott’s film adaptation, returns everyone’s favorite corprophagist, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, to the public eye. A decade ago, "Silence of the Lambs" beat the odds in adapting [...]
’A Better Place’ plays like a very dark ’After School Special’. Following the death of his father, Barret (Robert DiPatri) moves to a new town, and soon find that it’s not easy being the new kid. He becomes friends with Ryan (Eion Bailey), a [...]
It seems inevitable that director Jean-Jacques Annaud’s large-scale WWII drama would be compared to "Saving Private Ryan." On the surface, "Enemy at the Gates" appears to mimic its predecessor yet, given a closer look, the latter [...]
Since "The Storm Riders" has conquered the Hong Kong box office some time ago, it has not only revived theatrical revenues in Hong Kong in general, as expected – and hoped for – it has also brought forth a number of films that put [...]
At first glance, 1973’s ’The Legend of Hell House’ may look like a rip-off of Shirley Jackson’s 1959 novel, ’The Haunting of Hill House’ and the subsequent 1963 film based on the book. (We won’t discuss the 1999 re-make here.) A physicist, [...]
