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Reform School Girls

April 27, 2001 // 0 Comments

Anchor Bay has taken the lead in the DVD industry in providing good discs for lesser-known movies and their recent release of "Reform School Girls" is no exception. Remember all those T & A movies you watched on HBO and Showtime in the late [...]

Space Cowboys

April 24, 2001 // 0 Comments

I’ll admit right up front that I’m a bit of a space junkie. Books, movies, GI Joe Mercury 7 astronaut action figures — you name it — if it has to do with the space program I’m all over it. And, while I appreciate the attempts to be [...]

Demetrius And The Gladiators

April 16, 2001 // 0 Comments

"Demetrius and the Gladiators, " released in 1954, was the sequel to Fox’s box-office smash "The Robe, " which came out one year earlier and ushered in movie going with the introduction of Cinemascope. Whereas "The Robe" [...]

The Legend of Drunken Master

April 10, 2001 // 0 Comments

"The Legend of Drunken Master" was released theatrically in the U.S. in October 2000 by Disney-owned Dimension Films. The original title of what is arguably Jackie Chan’s finest film is "Drunken Master 2" and it was a smash hit in [...]

The Rock

March 19, 2001 // 0 Comments

The Criterion Collection defines itself as "A series of important classic and contemporary films." Now, the question is, does "The Rock" fit that description? "The Rock" initially presents itself as just another high-tech, [...]

Dragon Inn

March 12, 2001 // 0 Comments

The name Tsui Hark in combination with Ching Siu-Tung brightens up every Hong Kong film fan’s face immediately. The two have been responsible for some of the most influential and breathtaking period films the genre has to offer. Their 1992 collaboration [...]

Once Upon A Time In China

March 5, 2001 // 0 Comments

After first working together in 1989’s ’The Master, ’ Hong Kong action director extraordinaire Tsui Hark and international martial arts legend Jet Li teamed up again in 1991 to bring the story of Chinese folk hero Wong Fei-hung to the silver screen [...]

Ben Hur

February 23, 2001 // 0 Comments

William Wyler’s "Ben Hur" is an epic that epitomizes everything that grand filmmaking is about. Whether it is the film’s considerable running length of 222 minutes, its extremely wide aspect ratio of 2.76:1, its number of extras, the level [...]

The Untouchables

February 1, 2001 // 0 Comments

There have been many movies based on popular television programs — some good (’The Fugitive’) and some bad (’The Avengers’). In rare instances, the feature film even comes to overshadow the small screen show that served as its inspiration. [...]

Last Hurrah For Chivalry

January 24, 2001 // 0 Comments

When thinking of John Woo, most people immediately have a predetermined image in their minds, of dazzling action movies with blazing guns and explosions, choreographed and staged to create an almost lyrical tragedy in the midst of all the mayhem. What [...]
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