Located somewhere between a love story and a tragedy, ’Frankenstein Created Woman’ is much less of an actual horror movie than the title may suggest. Baron Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) is still on the search for the secret of life and with the help of [...]
Why is it that "Supergirl" has always been treated like the ugly duckling in the shadow of its overly powerful cousin, "Superman?" Whatever the reasons are, Anchor Bay Entertainment decided to put an end to it and to bring [...]
Reviewing this DVD afforded a unique opportunity for me. Since its theatrical debut in 1984 and despite its availability on VHS, laserdisc, cable and even broadcast television, I have never seen "Repo Man" in its entirety. I’ve caught bits [...]
’Desert Winds’ is an unusual little movie, which is very different from your standard Hollywood fare. A pre-’Boogie Nights’ Heather Graham stars as Jackie, a young girl who lives in New Mexico. One day, Jackie is yelling from a cliff, trying to [...]
"Don’t we already have that on laserdisc?" "Isn’t that on TBS every other day?" "But you hate that movie!" These responses may be familiar to those of you who are like me and insist on getting certain things on DVD. There [...]
America’s most recent brush with politics and heavy petting notwithstanding, sex scandals have been around as long as men have ruled and women have allowed them to. The Profumo sex scandal of the 1960’s rocked England and helped bring down the then [...]
This is the third DVD from the Disney Channel series ’Bear in the Big Blue House, ’ and it continues the tradition of quality shown in the first DVD. ’Shapes, Sounds, & Colors with Bear’ features three full-length episodes from the series. [...]
As we all know, Hollywood is motivated by trends. One trend that has seemed to die out in the last decade (outside of the home video market) are film series. The eighties saw the market get "sequelitis", especially when it came to horror films. [...]
In the world of Hollywood commercialism where every movie is "artificially designed" to appeal to audiences rather than be a true expression of a filmmakers’ vision, it is rare to find films these days that are noticeably extroverted and [...]
’Kelly’s Heroes’ is a war movie in much the same way that ’The Dirty Dozen, ’ ’Operation Petticoat,’ or ’Three Kings’ can be considered war movies. While the conflict provides the setting and the main characters are all military men, the [...]
