’The Eagle Has Landed’ was the final film directed by the great John Sturges. While not as critically-acclaimed as his earlier works, it does display many of the same subtle touches that made films such as ’The Great Escape’ and ’The Magnificent [...]
"7 Faces of Dr. Lao, " George Pal’s compassionate adaption of Charles Finney’s 1935 cult novel about a mystical circus and its effect on a small Western town, has always been my favorite George Pal film. The story cuts just enough to make [...]
Stop me if you’ve heard this one. A group of teenagers go into the woods to renovate an old summer camp and get it ready for a grand opening. However, a killer in hockey-mask is loose in the woods and kills off the young campers one by one. It becomes [...]
Mike Myers has ruined James Bond for me. Lampooning the spy genre with his Austin Powers persona, Myers forever sabotaged all future attempts to watch a Bond film with a straight face. Myers let the audience in on the same joke with the actors and [...]
For those of us who don’t live in New York, L.A., or Chicago, it’s a rare and exciting treat to see a film that was shot at a location that one is familiar with. That’s just one of the reasons that I’m excited about the recent release of ’The [...]
"Handel is the greatest composer who ever lived. I would bare my head and kneel at his grave." – Beethoven Handel was a German immigrant to England who never became fluent in the language of his adoptive country. Thankfully, this didn’t [...]
Tai Seng Video Marketing has been preparing two new domestic releases for fans of Hong Kong cinema. This time Tai Seng is serving up an epic story of the Chinese Mafia, surrounding the mob boss Lee Ah-Chai, portrayed with suave by Chow Yun-Fat. Coming on [...]
The Marvel Comic superheroes, ’X-Men’ are making their DVD debut now through Universal Home Video’s release of the six-episode animated serial ’The Phoenix Saga.’ Produced as part of the ’Fox Kids’ television programming, the story is [...]
Some time ago these 1945 films were released by Focus Films as part of their 4-disc Sherlock Holmes box set and although the release wasn’t very impressive, it was merely a matter of source material deterioration that plagued the release. Marengo Films, [...]
If there is one film besides "Citizen Kane" that became synonymous with the legacy of ingenious filmmaker Orson Welles, it has to be his 1958 movie "Touch Of Evil." After turning his back on Hollywood in frustration in 1948, Welles [...]
