As the number of DVD titles grows and as more Americans bring DVD players into their homes, the number of family titles has also started to increase. The way I see it, this is of vital importance to the longevity of DVD. The more well-rounded and easily [...]
I always try to be honest with my reviews, so let’s all be frank here. For several different reasons, Disney has not been the studio that would be ranked number one among DVD collectors. And for a while there, it seemed that they had no intentions of [...]
“A Lesson Before Dying” is a powerful movie placed in the 1940’s south, where an African-American is wrongfully accused of killing a white store owner. Grant Wiggins, a local teacher, has become disillusioned by the racial injustice in the southern [...]
In regular intervals, Columbia TriStar Home Video is presenting us with kaiju releases, giant monster movies from the imagination and workshops of Japanese filmmakers from the Toho Studios. Columbia usually creates double-features for these releases, [...]
Horatio Hornblower is a fictional character created by British writer C. S. Forester in 1937 that has captivated audiences since, and has appeared in a series of 10 novels by the acclaimed author. Forester was a historical novelist, biographer, journalist [...]
Ever so often, almost unnoticed, Trimark Home Video is releasing pretty good movies on DVD are get somehow overlooked in the flood of major releases every month. Only recently the independent studio has released “The Sex monster”, a comedy that makes [...]
Medgar Evers has been one of the leading figures in the civil rights movement of the 50s and 60s in America’s south. Evers was denied access to the University of Mississippi in 1954 for his skin color and from then on, to the day he was cowardly shot in [...]
"Muhammad Ali: The Greatest Collection" is a release from HBO Home Video that should make every fan of the world-class boxing champ happy. Not only does it contain full, unabridged footage of some of Ali’s landmark fights, you can also watch [...]
The first time I was watching "Dead Calm", I remember that I was completely captivated by this menacing thriller. Although I was familiar with Sam Neill at the time, mostly from hisdiabolic performance of Damien in "Omen III: The Final [...]
"Rushmore" is one of the best comedies that I’ve seen in years (for more gushing and a full plot synopsis, please see my full review for the Touchstone DVD release of the film), so I was delighted to hear that the Criterion Collection had been [...]
