Founded in 1981, the band Yellowjackets put together a unique blend of smooth jazz, acoustic, and traditional folk music that quickly took off and garnered a legion of fans. More than two decades later, the group is still going incredibly strong, with two [...]
This 1956 science fiction classic has long been a landmark of the genre that is beloved by millions and viewed over and over again. To celebrate the movie's 50th anniversary Warner Home Video has not only restored the film to its original glory but [...]
It's not too often we see an A-list Hollywood film attempting to expand on the simple romantic comedy formula by altering the norm, even ever-so-slightly. Now, I'm not talking about anything mind blowing here, It's just that we are usually [...]
I had seen advertisements for "Slither" countless times and then Universal sent over the HD-DVD version of the film for review something drew me to it. I usually do not care much for contemporary horror films since they have all degraded to [...]
Meat Loaf's 1977 album "Bat Out Of Hell" has long become a classic rock record that is as cool as it was almost 30 years ago when it was first released. But it was not always like that. The road to getting this record done and published was [...]
Stanley Kubrick's story of a slave uprising in ancient Rome won four Academy Awards in 1960 and is still a marvelous sweeping epic that remains absolutely timeless. And yet, the film has been treated like an ugly duckling by Universal so far, never [...]
With a long string of unrivalled success movies, Pixar have long established themselves as the leader in computer animated feature and short films. It is a position that is often challenged by other filmmakers and studios but Pixar have always been able [...]
With a couple of DVD editions already floating around (one courtesy of Anchor Bay), Blue Underground goes to the well again, providing a triple-dip presentation of Harry Kumel's artsy Euro-trash classic "Daughters of Darkness." Drenched in [...]
For some, "Scarface" is the quintessential 1980s movie. It may very well be, but not for any great cinematic achievement. Brian De Palma's 1983 gangster epic put a face, namely Al Pacino's, to the undying quest for an elusive American [...]
A remake of the 1969 film of the same name, 'The Italian Job' turns out to be much more than a simple reshoot. While using generally the same premise – a gold heist – the film throws in a number of wicked twists and story elements that were [...]
