Reviews

Gothic

May 8, 2000 // 0 Comments

In the summer of 1816, the great English poets Lord Byron and Percy Shelley, Byron’s biographer Dr. John Polidori and Shelley’s then-fiancé, Mary Godwin gathered at a villa in Switzerland. One night, they challenged each other to create a ghost [...]

Marnie

May 5, 2000 // 0 Comments

In their "Alfred Hitchcock Collection", Universal is regularly releasing restored films of the masterful director, combined with insightful supplements that add depth to these gems that made movie history. The most recent release in the series [...]

The Fox And The Hound

May 5, 2000 // 0 Comments

Disney has only been distributing their ’Gold Collection’ titles for a few months now, but they’ve already hit a stumbling block. After the fairly impressive work on ’The Aristocats’, I was very surprised by the overall poor quality of the DVD [...]

Jagged Edge

May 5, 2000 // 0 Comments

What starts out like a very atmospheric thriller, quickly turns out as a court room drama that revolves around a contrived murder case. A woman is slaughtered in her beach house and her shattered husband hires a lawyer to unravel the mysteries of the [...]

The Three Caballeros

May 4, 2000 // 0 Comments

At the height of World War Two, Walt Disney took a group of his artists and headed south to Latin America to conduct research for new animated features. It was hoped that these movies would promote Pan-American unity during this time of great uncertainty [...]

The Abominable Snowman

May 4, 2000 // 0 Comments

So, Guido gives me the DVD of "The Abominable Snowman" and says, "I want you to review this. Have you seen it?" And I replied, "Not Yeti." (OK, now that I’ve gotten my Yeti joke out of the way, on with the review!) [...]

Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid

May 3, 2000 // 0 Comments

Honored with four Academy Awards in 1969, George Roy Hill’s "Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid" is still one of the most beloved buddy-movies of a great many film fans. Not only did it practically start the genre, but it still stands out as [...]

Dogma

May 2, 2000 // 0 Comments

I find it very interesting that movies that stir up the most fervent controversies the fastest, are films that touch upon religious subjects. As soon as a filmmaker suggests a different view on theological issues, the moral-apostles of the Catholic church [...]

The Minus Man

May 2, 2000 // 0 Comments

I don’t think that I’ve ever been faced with a film as challenging to review as ’The Minus Man.’ The film is so subtle and dreamlike, that it’s hard to judge. I certainly didn’t hate it, because it’s so innocuous that it would be hard to [...]

Whity

May 1, 2000 // 0 Comments

In 1970, the controversial German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder set his anarchic eye on the American Western, creating perhaps the strangest oater ever committed to film. Now, after languishing 30 years in obscurity, ’Whity’ returns with a DVD [...]
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