When horror film fans discuss the pioneers who have influenced, changed, and shaped the genre over the past 25 years, names such as Romero, Carpenter, Raimi, Craven, and Argento are mentioned. It can easily be argued that directors such as these began [...]
TV productions have generally a bad reputation. While one could assume that he limited budget of these productions makes them less appealing than their theatrical counterparts, in most cases, the shortcomings are in the script. Fortunately this is not the [...]
"Batman: The Movie" was certainly the least likely film to be released on DVD as a Special Edition, but fortunately a group of fans within 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment directly lobbied the movie, and here we have it the "Holy Special [...]
Over his forty-four year career as a director, Howard Hawks tried his hand at just about every conceivable film genre including musicals ("Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"), gangster films ("Scarface"), and Westerns ("Rio Bravo"). [...]
The sixth and final installment in ADV Films’ line of DVD releases of the ’Martian Successor Nadesico’ series is once again, a showcase for the quality DVD can achieve with animation films, when treated properly. An alien triggers the final showdown [...]
Hollywood is often accused of underestimating the masses and delivering the same drivel to the public over and over again. (For a rather acidic diatribe on this point, check out the by Henry Selick on "Monkeybone".) Typically, the only way to [...]
When ’Scream’ debuted in 1996, it revived the slasher genre of the early 80s. But, this new strain of slasher film was to be more hip and self-reflective than its cousins from the prior decade. Unfortunately, the makers of ’Valentine’ missed that [...]
Following in the long line of movies based on "Saturday Night Live" skits, "Wayne’s World" arrived in theaters in 1992 and was an immediate hit. While most films to come out of the "SNL" stable have been forgettable, if not [...]
Joseph Mankiewicz’s ’The Barefoot Contessa’ represents something of an ill-fitting hybrid. The lighting-fast quips and juicy bon mots are signature Mankiewicz and 1950’s American cinema, yet the pacing and storytelling manner are very much of [...]
One of the most highly anticipated box sets of the year has finally arrived, and the "Die Hard: The Ultimate Collection" proves itself to be quite worth the wait, as it’s overflowing with great bells and whistles. In fact the only real problem [...]
