After first releasing a bare-bones version of the film on DVD in March of last year – please see our review of the disc here – Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment is finally delivering the DVD that should have been in the first place – a 2-disc [...]
"Mad Max" is one of those rare films that was so ingeniously original upon its release that it immediately spawned a number of pale imitations — as well as two sequels — and continues to this day to have a larger impact on the action [...]
Writing a review for a new DVD is usually divided into three components; A) What is the film about?, B) Is the film any good?, and C) Is the DVD itself worth checking out? Typically, the A) What is the film about? section is the easiest part of the review [...]
There’s something unique about war movies made while the conflict they portray is still raging. They tend to offer a snapshot of the sensibilities of the general public at a time of great uncertainty and, while often rife with unfortunate racial [...]
There’s so much in 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment’s new "Planet of the Apes" DVD that if I don’t get right to it right away, we all might meet our extinction before this review is over. It’s 2029 when the USAF research space station [...]
I realize that I’m a little late to the party as just about every film and DVD reviewer out there has already taken their whacks at the latest Michael Bay mega-movie, "Pearl Harbor." I’m a bigtime history geek and my primary area of interest [...]
Ever since the silents, Hollywood has been in love with itself. From Charlie Chaplin to Billy Wilder to Robert Altman, the movies occasionally, but not irregularly, pointed its cameras inward for that "insider’s glimpse" of the cogs and gears [...]
The popularity of different film genres can ebb and flow over the years, and the western is a perfect example of this. While westerns we’re everywhere in the 50s, 60, and 70s (that includes the big screen and on television), their attraction begin to [...]
"Jurassic Park" was and still is landmark achievement and the single best dinosaur film ever banned on celluloid to date. Sadly the film was followed up by a poor sequel with "The Lost World, " a movie in which nothing really felt [...]
Certain that a film derived from a smash video game and featuring the curvaceous Angelina Jolie would result a sure-fire hit with Summertime moviegoers, the execs at Eidos Interactive Ltd gave the green flag to Paramount Pictures to bring "Lara Croft [...]
