Dieter Dengler was a young boy growing up in Nazi Germany when a flight of American fighter aircraft swooped down on his quiet Black Forest village and opened fire. One plane flew so low past Dieter’s attic window that he was able to make eye contact [...]
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 [...]
When I first learned that ’Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas’ was coming to DVD I was both excited and a little bit apprehensive. I fondly recall watching this Jim Henson production countless times on HBO in the early 1980s but I hadn’t seen it [...]
I doubt there’s a child of the 80s out there who doesn’t recall "The Beastmaster." A longtime staple of cable television, this 1982 fantasy film offered up just the right amount of swordplay, funny animal sidekicks, and cheesecake to keep [...]
Barely recognized as a bona-fide genre among film cogniscenti, a few Russian filmmakers devoted their entire careers to bringing classic fairy and folk tales to the silver screen. Produced from the earliest days of cinema, the resulting films have an air [...]
Spoofs on the "Star Wars" saga are plentiful and come from all media. Film versions are obviously the most popular, due to their ability to nicely reflect the look of the original films. Whether it’s "Troops," some home-made web [...]
I began this project remembering that I might still have the golden ticket theaters handed out to patrons during the 1971 theatrical run of "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory." After digging around my garage, amid some View Master reels and [...]
For most people, movies exist solely for entertainment. For others, films are a way to temporarily escape reality and visit a time or place that one normally could not. I fall squarely into that second category, which is why I typically don’t like [...]
Since "The Storm Riders" has conquered the Hong Kong box office some time ago, it has not only revived theatrical revenues in Hong Kong in general, as expected – and hoped for – it has also brought forth a number of films that put [...]
A fan-favorite and a late arrival on DVD, Richard Donner’s "The Goonies" is finally making its DVD debut as a promising Special Edition. Being almost a classic of the 80s, certainly this film deserves nothing but the best, and considering the [...]
