Tai Seng Video Marketing has been preparing two new domestic releases for fans of Hong Kong cinema. This time Tai Seng is serving up an epic story of the Chinese Mafia, surrounding the mob boss Lee Ah-Chai, portrayed with suave by Chow Yun-Fat. Coming on [...]
Of the Sean Connery Bond films, ’You Only Live Twice’, the fifth entry in the series, often elicits apathy from viewers. Like a neglected middle child, the film is rarely thought of as on par with some others. I confess that I felt this way. Well, [...]
It is a bittersweet time for the fans of James Bond. There is excitement and anticipation, as the third James Bond Box Set arrives. Also, there is a sense of melancholy and ennui, as fans realize that this will be the final Bond box set for some time to [...]
German director Wolfgang Petersen is no stranger to the sea. Not only has he been raised close to the sea, he also brought us one of the most memorable high-seas war movies of all times with his 1981 epic "Das Boot." But Petersen is also no [...]
"Octopussy" has to rank right up there with "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me" as the cheekiest choice for a mainstream film title. You’ve really got to give them credit for getting away with it. The film itself was the [...]
"A View to a Kill" has the dubious distinction of being both Roger Moore’s swan song as special agent 007 and one of the most critically-lambasted offerings in the entire James Bond series. Poor Roger, he probably should have hung up his [...]
Not since Wolfgang Petersen’s intense TV production "Das Boot" almost 20 years ago have we seen a truly impressive movie that took viewers into the steel bowels of a World War II submarine, allowing us to take the perspective of those men [...]
After visiting the horror genre in the early stages of his career, and then going into space and science fiction, for the first time, director Roland Emmerich has recently ventured into the period pieces, creating the sweeping historic action-adventure [...]
For a fan of classic movies like myself, the DVD market still contains way too little titles from the 40s, 50s and 60s, in its tendency to focus on blockbusters and action oriented film. As such Columbia TriStar Home Video’s steady release of such films [...]
Has it really been 7 years already? I remember it like yesterday. Hyped up by the buzz about the movie and everything I had read about its incredible special effects, I walked into my local movie theater to watch "Jurassic Park" for the very [...]
