Viewing Warner Home Video’s radiant DVD of the almost lost 1954 musical version of "A Star Is Born" sparked mixed emotions. Warner’s first foray into DVD-18 territory is an out and out winner, promising good things to come with future Warner [...]
"Octopussy" has to rank right up there with "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me" as the cheekiest choice for a mainstream film title. You’ve really got to give them credit for getting away with it. The film itself was the [...]
As someone who is much more interested in the work of directors and screenwriters, I rarely watch a movie based solely on the actors involved. But this is a movie that you must see because of the work of one actor. That actor’s name is Sam Raimi. Yes, [...]
"Frequency, " the name is rather non-descript for a movie that is filled elements that create such a racy experience that it does. Filled with elements of time travel, taking it a bit into science fiction territory, "Frequency" is [...]
The much ballyhooed comeback of Santana has been the material of a media feeding frenzy for months now, and although Carols and his band had never really disappeared, people simply had lost the band out of their sight. Powerful and updated, Santana [...]
In our high-tech world, it is very easy for things to become obsolete. Your computer, appliances, home-theater system may be the cutting edge of technology one day, and totally incompatible the next. The same goes for DVDs as well. There is a long history [...]
From Broadway in the Twenties came the ’college musical, ’ a genre unto itself. "Good News" (1927) was a prime example of it. The plot posed two burning questions: will the home football team win? and will the paths of true love run smooth? [...]
"A View to a Kill" has the dubious distinction of being both Roger Moore’s swan song as special agent 007 and one of the most critically-lambasted offerings in the entire James Bond series. Poor Roger, he probably should have hung up his [...]
’But I’m a Cheerleader’ is one of those films that has a funny and clever central idea that would’ve made a great ’Saturday Night Live’ skit or a nice short film, but doesn’t work as a full-length feature. Natasha Lyonne stars as Megan, a [...]
Not since Wolfgang Petersen’s intense TV production "Das Boot" almost 20 years ago have we seen a truly impressive movie that took viewers into the steel bowels of a World War II submarine, allowing us to take the perspective of those men [...]
