Reviews
Swiss Family Robinson: 55th Anniversary Edition
Walt Disney’s 1960 big screen adventure Swiss Family Robinson is one of the best examples of the misunderstood genre known as the American family film. Released at the height of the baby boomer consumer culture, the rousing tropical epic was [...]
Inherit the Wind
During the 1950s, Hollywood mutated from the monolithic studio system to the more risk-friendly independent film companies. Just as stars had been typecast, so were some producers. If you had a property leaning towards science fiction and fantasy, you’d [...]
Tentacles / Reptilicus Double Feature
A moment of disclosure: I used to be a reviewer for DVDReview.com. My last review was posted in 2005, when DVD was the “ultimate” home entertainment format and the prospect of a high definition successor was still far in the distance. Much has changed [...]
GoodFellas: 25th Anniversary
Martin Scorsese’s 1990 movie “GoodFellas” is without a doubt a true modern classic. It is one of those films that everyone has seen and one that everyone should see. It is dark, disturbing, violent and at the same time intriguing, charming and [...]
Halt and Catch Fire
For some reason, I had never heard of AMC’s television show “Halt and Catch Fire” until Anchor Bay Entertainment sent me a Blu-Ray copy for review. As soon as I had read the show’s description I just knew that I had to watch it. 1983 was the year [...]
Escape from New York: Collector’s Edition
Kurt Russell and director John Carpenter have made a good number of films together, but in fans’ minds, their first concerted effort, “Escape From New York,” appears to be the most fervently adored one. The reason is quite simple, I guess. The film [...]
Song of the Sea
In a world where the term “animated” has become equivalent with “computer animated” and “Digitally sterile, ” it is becoming increasingly hard to find films that are keeping the original spirit of animation alive by offering up a level of [...]
Detroit Rock City
Since 1978 when Kiss released “Kiss Meets The Phantom In The Park”, fans of the band had been waiting in vain to see Gene, Paul, Peter and Ace grace the silver screen once again. After the break-up in 1983 all hope seemed lost forever, and even after [...]
Into The Woods
Just like superhero movies a decade earlier, fairy tale films have seen a huge resurgence in recent years, undoubtedly a result of the technological advances that make it possible to create completely otherworldly settings and creatures with the help of [...]