In a single swoop MGM Home Entertainment have decided to release 4 parts of the "Pink Panther" comedy series on DVD. It is a series I have been looking forward to for quite a while because these films are some top-notch classic comedies with the [...]
Since Pixar’s acclaimed "Toy Story" hit theaters and video stores in 1995, computer animated feature-length films have been a newly evolving genre. Image rendering technologies have progressed substantially over the past years and new hardware [...]
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment has just released the complete "Die Hard" trilogy on DVD as separate discs and as a nice boxed set containing all three parts of the series. The series that made Bruce Willis a Hollywood superstar and box [...]
Peter Weir’s film about a young man who’s life is highly publicized and dissected before the eyes of a huge TV audience has been the box-office surprise hit of 1998. Although the film gathered a good deal of initial attention through it’s main star [...]
Dreamworks are clearly under way to beat Disney in their tracks with their classy family films and are even challenging Disney’s status with animated movies. "Mouse Hunt" was one of the studio’s early efforts to establish themselves as a [...]
When the Eagles reformed in 1994 for a semi-plugged concert for MTV on Warner’s Burbank Studios it seemed as if in fact, Hell had frozen over. When the Eagles disbanded in 1982 the band’s most distinctive voice, Don Henley said that Hell would have to [...]
"Godzilla" got a bum rap. The movie, that is, not the monster. Any large mutant lizard that regularly stomps densly populated urban areas deserves a little bad PR. I’m talking about the mega-budget Roland Emmerich/Dean Devlin feature from last [...]
They might have grown older since Mel Gibson and Danny Glover first took on the roles of Riggs and Murtaugh in Richard Donner’s "Lethal Weapon" in 1987, but they have lost none of their humor or edge. The film was an instant success with its [...]
69-year-old director John Frankenheimer has created a vast number of thriller and espionage films throughout his long career. Some of the most memorable feature Steve McQueen and Frank Sinatra in adventure stories, taking them to places throughout the [...]
Nearly 30 years ago, a bunch of college students decided to shoot a series of cheap horror flicks on their Super-8 equipment, planning to show them on the campus and to make a few dollars on the side. Little did they know that they were about to create [...]