I had heard the name Hal Hartley mentioned many-a-time when the subject of independent film was raised, but it wasn’t until now that I actually viewed one of his movies. ’The Unbelievable Truth’ was one of Hartley’s earliest works, and it falls [...]
Hitchcock had already achieved extensively in a wide range of capacities during the silent era of the movies. The British film industry’s silent era produced no talents remembered principally for this medium, so Hitchcock pretty much had the field to [...]
After quite a few consecutive box-office duds, ’The 6th Day’ marked something of a return to form for über action star Arnold Schwarzenegger. While certainly not up to the standards of ’The Terminator, ’ or even ’Total Recall,’ the film is [...]
"The Sword in the Stone" is the animated Disney interpretation of T. H. White’s masterpiece novel of the same name. While featuring the usual degree of daft musical numbers and comedy, the film is seriously lacking in the story department and [...]
In Paul Bartel’s ’Lust in the Dust, ’ everybody’s favorite transvestite Divine plays Rosie Velez, a luckless chanteuse who crosses paths with taciturn drifter Abel Wood (Tab Hunter) on the road to dusty Chile Verde, New Mexico. Rosie plans to [...]
When David Lean’s 1962 epic "Lawrence of Arabia" first appeared on movie screens, it was hailed as an evolutionary leap in large-scale filmmaking and storytelling. When it blazed in 1989 again, courtesy of an extensive restoration to its [...]
’The Abominable Dr. Phibes’ stars Vincent Price as Dr. Anton Phibes, a mad genius thought to have been killed in an automobile accident and subsequently entombed following the death of his wife from a botched medical procedure. But, in a series of [...]
’Thunderbirds are go!’ If that phrase jogs some long-repressed childhood memory of marionettes piloting exotic vehicles across highly-detailed miniature landscapes then get ready to re-experience ’Thunderbirds.’ ’Thunderbirds’ stands as [...]
At times, it seems that everyone in the world hates Microsoft. There was the recent box-office dud ’AntiTrust’, which took veiled potshots at the software giant and it’s founder Bill Gates. And now, we have an earlier film, 1998’s ’Ivory [...]
"Torn Curtain" is notable as production number 50 from the most recognized film director in the world, Alfred Hitchcock, and comes to us on DVD as another disc in the stellar package of Universal’s "The Alfred Hitchcock Collection." [...]
