In the 60s sandal films were all the rage and apart from a number of truly memorable ones, the genre has also produced some less shining films that never got much recognition. Vittorio Cottafavi’s ’La Vendetta Di Ercole’ is such a film, better known [...]
For the last week, I have tried on four separate occasions to sit through "Gormenghast, " the epic four-hour television production produced by the BBC. Life, in various forms, interrupted my attempts. I had requested the title for review, [...]
I rarely mention DVD cover art in my reviews, but I must draw attention to Urban Vision’s gutsy move to give their ’Gatchaman Collection’ such a spartan cover. Still, it’s obviously effective, for as I was perusing the new releases, I suddenly [...]
For some reason horror fans have almost uniformly dismissed Clive Barker’s "Nightbreed" when it was first released in 1990. Based on his own novel "Cabal, " Barker wrote and directed "Nightbreed," bringing to life a whole [...]
Like many, I decry the loss of the independent horror film movement of the early 80s, where low-budget shockers were distributed by the major studios and played in theatres right next to their big-budget brethren. While we don’t see as many of these [...]
If ever you wanted incriminating evidence that Hollywood would sink so low as to eat its own in favor of filling a movie house, "Mommie Dearest" is the incontestable proof, hands down. Loosely adapted from adoptive daughter Christina [...]
Troubled teen Mary Shelley could have hardly imagined the creature she would conjure up one dark, stormy night in 1816 would endure as a cultural phenomenon and iconic characterization nearly two centuries later. As this ’Tales of Frankenstein’ DVD [...]
There has been a lot of talk lately concerning media violence and censorship. Hollywood has been under the scrutiny of the government and there has been a general trend in movies and television to pull in the reins on violent material. Given all of the [...]
Before you PlayStation fans reach for your wallets, allow me to warn you that the film version of ’Parasite Eve’ has nothing to do with the lovely Aya Brea and the gun-toting antics which she performs in the popular video-game series. This Japanese [...]
1955’s "Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy" finds Bud and Lou tackling the immortal Wrapped One in the same irreverent manner they encountered all of the legendary Universal monsters, starting with "Abbott and Costello Meet [...]
