As with many Generation X’ers, I love horror film from the late 70s-early 80s, and one of my favorites is the underrated ’The Changeling’. In the film, George C. Scott plays composer John Russell, who has just lost his wife and daughter in an auto [...]
In opera, if the second half of the 20th century were dominated by any single conductor, it would be Herbert Von Karajan. Principal conductor for life of the Berlin Philharmonic, Von Karajan was also a mainstay at both the Vienna State Opera and the [...]
This 4-DVD box set features the first 8 episodes of the 26-episode BBC mini-series, ’The Pallisers, ’ which originally aired in 1974. Based on the six ’political’ novels of the great Victorian author, Anthony Trollope, the full series explores the [...]
Over the past year, Buena Vista has been improving the quality of their DVD product and ’Mission to Mars’ is a perfect example of that evolution. The DVD features an anamorphic widescreen transfer of the film, which is absolutely beautiful. The image [...]
Imagine a world in which Great Britain is defeated in World War Two and subjected to rule by a regime of Nazi collaborators. That is precisely the alternate reality that two teenaged filmmakers, Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo, set out to create in ’It [...]
Rarely seen and almost forgotten for the longest time, Lucio Fulci’s "The Beyond" has become a cult favorite over the years that was given a second chance at life by none other than Quentin Tarantino. Redistributed through his company Rolling [...]
There are numerous film adaptations, telling the story of John Dillinger, one of America’s most notorious bank robbers and gangsters of the pre-FBI Hoover era. In 1973, director John Milius tackled the subject matter in a furious movie that packed [...]
In celebration of the late Charles Schulz’s work, Paramount Home Video has created a dedicated DVD line to release episodes of the beloved ’Peanuts.’ ’It’s The Pied Piper, Charlie Brown’ is one of the first releases in this ’Peanuts [...]
Long before there was ’Scream’, there was ’The Slumber Party Massacre’, a film which both followed the conventions of the slasher film, yet spoofed them as well. Also, this film has the distinction of being made by women, having been directed by [...]
To mangle the great English poet Alexander Pope, sometimes sequels rush in where originals have already tread. For every "Bride of Frankenstein," "Godfather Part II" or "Empire Strikes Back," there are those continuations [...]
