For as long as I can remember, I have always employed "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" as a reference point for testing out a new format as well as to showcase all the best that my home theater had to offer. I have done so since the early days of [...]
I never thought that embracing the new Universal Media Disc (UMD) format for Sony's Playstation Portable (PSP) would ever be in my future, especially when it came to watching and enjoying movies. Not really considered a "gamer", I honestly [...]
Just in time to promote the theatrical release of ’Alien Vs Predator’ 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment has released a long-overdue Special Edition of ’Predator.’ It is the story of a small team of commandos on the mission in the Central [...]
After the incident on September 11, many studios reconsidered how to deal with certain films they had in their pipelines at the time, cautiously shuffling their release schedules in order to accommodate the healing process that was to follow the horrible [...]
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 [...]
In revisiting Paul Verhoeven’s 1990 futuristic epic ’Total Recall, ’ Artisan Home Entertainment pulled out all the stops in their new, truly packed special edition DVD. An excellent transfer, remastered sound and a plethora of supplements including [...]
After Artisan’s release of the Ultimate Edition of James Cameron’s "Terminator 2" everyone’s eyes were directed towards the original film, "The Terminator." Released in 1997 as a bare-bones DVD of mediocre quality, fans of the [...]
After quite a few consecutive box-office duds, ’The 6th Day’ marked something of a return to form for über action star Arnold Schwarzenegger. While certainly not up to the standards of ’The Terminator, ’ or even ’Total Recall,’ the film is [...]
For many months I have been following the development of Artisan Entertainment’s "Ultimate Edition" of "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" as part of our extensive Production Diary, and although I knew much about the content of the disc and [...]
As we all know, genre-cycles come and go in Hollywood. In the early ’80s, there was an insurgence of mythical fantasy films, which came to be known as "sword & sorcery" movies. This trend was no doubt influenced by the popularity of the [...]