"There’s Something About Mary" has been one of the major surprise box office hits of last year. A romantic comedy that blew everything out of the water completely unexpectedly, drawing huge crowds into theaters and eventually making almost [...]
Paramount has done an excellent job on this DVD. It may surprise you – as it surprised me – that Roxbury makes an exceedingly good DVD demo disc. Featuring a broad color palette, with pastels and bright colors splashed across the screen. The [...]
This 1978 Disney film has been lovingly restored by Anchor Bay for release on this DVD. While the picture is clear, the source material appears to have been on the dark side and there is some grain evident at times. No serious film artifacting like [...]
Some movies have a reputation that is larger than the actual film. If a film is rather rarely seen and has been considered lost for long times, this reputation can easily take on mammothly proportions, as is the case with James Whale’s "The Old [...]
Hollywood has always depended on star power to sell tickets at the box office. In recent years, this has become more important than ever, as studios put big money into star vehicles (it horrifies me to think that people will go see a movie simply because [...]
This release from Warner Home Video contains the film’s original 2.35:1 widescreen version, as well as a full screen transfer of the film. The fullscreen transfer has been done very carefully, mixing open matte shots with pan & scan treatment, [...]
If there’s one thing you can rely on from Hollywood, it’s consistency. Once a formula that works is found, it’s rarely tinkered with. However, with "Enemy Of The State", it seems that both star Will Smith and director Tony Scott want to [...]
Once again we have an example here how stunning animated films can look on DVD when they are done right. Warner Home Video has released "The King And I", an animated film, based on one of Broadway’s most successful musicals. I had talked with [...]
The flood of special effects movies is almost unstoppable since "Jurassic Park" opened the floodgates in 1993 with its advancements in computer generated imagery. Today literally every film we see on the silver screen is either dramatically [...]
Whether or not we want to admit it, we are all on the quest for the perfect DVD. You know what I’m talking about. We’re all looking for that DVD that combines a great picture, great audio, and great supplements. Let’s see if the newly released [...]
