When reviewing an older film, sometimes it is necessary to project oneself back in time to fully appreciate the movie in question. A good case in point is ’An Elephant Called Slowly’. While this is a fictional film, it is basically about animals in [...]
In the wake of the recently released ’Chicken Run’, Image Entertainment is bringing us the compilation, ’Creature Comforts’ which also features work by Nick Park and Peter Lord, the creators of ’Chicken Run’ and ’Wallace & Grommit.’ [...]
Following the success of his previous television series, "Secret Agent, " Patrick McGoohan decided to try something very different. The result was "The Prisoner," a 17 episode series that first aired on British television in 1967. The [...]
Those of you familiar with my reviews will know that I often write about the idea of fantasy versus reality in the Hollywood cinema. Hollywood is well-known for its ability to sugar-coat reality and present a picture of life that is so perfect that most [...]
’The Time Machine’ is producer/director George Pal’s cinematic interpretation of H.G. Wells’s classic tale of time travel. While Pal’s production departs from Wells’s storyline in many places, it remains true in spirit to the original and has [...]
American filmgoers spend millions, if not billions, of dollars each year going to the movies and viewing home videos. However, despite all of that money being spent, there are times when it seems that Hollywood doesn’t listen to the consumer. (And then [...]
Sometimes it is hard for me to believe how far DVD has come in such a short period of time. Only a year ago, a film like "Gettysburg" was somewhere on the backlist of all DVD releases, mostly because of its significant running length and DVD’s [...]
Punctuated by the booming intonations of narrator James Coburn, ’20th Century Fox: The First 50 Years’ is an entertaining documentary about the history and legacy of the studio. The Image Entertainment DVD also includes almost two hours of [...]
For over three years now, Columbia TriStar Home Video has been one of the few publishers who have supplied a steady stream of classic movies to DVD fans. Although the market for those classic movies has traditionally been very limited since DVD fans do [...]
I’m sure that ’The In Crowd’ seemed like a good idea at the time. The film is a combination of ’Beverly Hills, 90210’, ’Wild Things’, and a ’whodunnit’ film. It presents us with a group of spoiled rich kids who are spending their summer [...]
