’The Sorcerer Hunters: Magical Encounters’ is the first release from the series of Japanese animation films that are now coming to DVD courtesy of ADV Films. This first release in what is going to be a series of discs, contains 7 episodes from Satoru [...]
In the past, we’ve discussed the fashion in which Hollywood works in trends. Typically, we speak of this in terms of theatrical releases. But, recently, we’ve seen a trend in home video releases. It appears that all hell is breaking loose, as the [...]
In the past, most critics (but not me) have considered ’Mallrats’ to be writer/director Kevin Smith’s nadir. Not anymore. Now we have ’Clerks: The Animated Series’ to lambast. This show originally aired on ABC, although only two of the original [...]
In the realm of film criticism, movies must sometimes be judged in the same way as just about anything else in life, that is, did it accomplish what it set out to do? For example, did the comedy make you laugh? Did the drama make you cry? When viewed in [...]
The recent urban drama/thriller ’Turn it Up’ is coming to DVD from New Line Home Video. The transfer has been letterboxed at 1.85:1 and is enhanced for 16×9 TVs. The image is razor sharp, and its clarity reveals no intrusive noise or grain. The [...]
William Wyler’s "Ben Hur" is an epic that epitomizes everything that grand filmmaking is about. Whether it is the film’s considerable running length of 222 minutes, its extremely wide aspect ratio of 2.76:1, its number of extras, the level [...]
Watching an Agatha Christie movie is like enjoying a cup of warm mulled wine on a rainy night. Even if viewed now as dusty relics, her mysteries spoke to the autocrat as well as the moralist demanding justice. 1978’s "Death on the Nile" was [...]
I’m sure that there are those of you who wonder why HBO Home Video bothers to release their in-house movies on DVD. The answer is simple. They do this so that those individuals who don’t subscribe to HBO will have the opportunity to see wonderful [...]
"A man who refuses to acknowledge his God is unwise to set foot in the desert. The Arabs have a saying, Madam, that the desert is the garden of Allah." Just what Count Antioni (Basil Rathbone) means by this is fuzzy, but it is not the first or [...]
With the wealth of information available to us from various media outlets today, film fans have more knowledge at their disposal than ever. Therefore, we know when a film is announced, when it begins shooting, when shooting is completed, and when it’s [...]
