Anchor Bay Entertainment and Universal continue to show their support of DVD by releasing obscure films from the past. Their latest offering is Paul Schrader’s 1978 drama “Blue Collar”, starring Richard Pryor, Harvey Ketiel, and Yaphet Kotto. The [...]
After releasing “To Sir, With Love” a little while ago, Columbia TriStar is now bringing another motion picture to DVD with Sidney Poitier in the lead. The remarkable thing about Sidney Poitier is that the actor has always picked his films very [...]
Let me start by saying that I’m not a fan of "Pretty Woman" and I’ve never liked Julia Roberts very much. However, I loved "Notting Hill", so I tried to go into "Runaway Bride" with an open mind. I had no illusions, mind [...]
I have to admit I was not consciously familiar with H. G. Lewis’ works until I got the opportunity to review this disc, and now that I have seen "Two Thousand Maniacs!" I am left with a weird feeling. Let me explain. Most of you, like myself, [...]
I’ve always felt that a pop-culture phenomenon hasn’t really made it big until it has been spoofed in a porno movie. Well, apparently “The Blair Witch Project” has reached that level, as Seduction Cinema brings us “The Erotic Witch Project”. [...]
If there is one thing, Hong Kong cinema is constantly excelling in, it is the uncanny blending of different genres into a coherent and appealing story line. In no American movie is the line between horror, science fiction, fantasy, romance and comedy so [...]
In recent months Columbia TriStar Home Video has been drastically expanding the presence of classic movie titles on DVD through their ’Columbia Classics’ series of releases. One of the latest films of this line-up is ’Born Yesterday’, George [...]
Created by Bob Clampett, "Beany and Cecil" are cartoon characters that have made their impression on audiences for over 50 years. Actually, the two started out as puppets in live television, as we learn from this DVD, and eventually made the [...]
Hercule Poirot, the Belgian master-detective from the imagination and novels of British crime author Agatha Christie has always been one of my favorite characters of classic mystery thrillers. Unfortunately most impersonations of the character on film [...]
Have you ever noticed that if Kevin Costner has a moustache in a film, that the film tends to do comparably poorly? I want to get a grant in order to study this. The obvious example of this is "Wyatt Earp." But, there’s another Costner film [...]
