"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 [...]
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 [...]
Being an admirer of Alfred Hitchcock’s sophisticated, educated and intelligent work in the feature film arena, I have always been looking forward to seeing episodes from his TV series "Alfred Hitchcock Presents". Yes, it is true! I had never [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Interestingly, "Art Lover" is not your typical Vivid fare and is somehow more content oriented than many of their other releases – content oriented in Vivid terms that is. The film is a hardcore adult movie with petite Kobe Tai in the lead [...]
Buena Vista present Eddie Murphy’s latest film in a gorgeous letterbox transfer on this DVD. The image is sharp with plenty of detail and strong colors. The transfer looks very balanced and clean, and the disc’s overall color reproduction is superb. [...]
