Does Hollywood create enough wholesome family films and do they put them out on DVD? Well, there is certainly not as much family entertainment available on DVD as on VHS, but every once in a while some great films come along nonetheless, like "My Dog [...]
Image Entertainment has undertaken to distribute a fascinating series of opera performances in association with Eagle Rock Entertainment. Image’s strategy is not to identify lead singers or conductors in their promotional information. This is probably a [...]
The wait for this movie has been long. After all I remember the film was on Polygram’s DVD schedules in 1998 already and was then withheld when Polygram sold its film library to MGM. There the film was put on hold for quite some time until it has now [...]
Is it just me, or do television mini-series become increasingly more prolific? I think I have never seen so many great television movies than in the past two years. Trimark Home Video just brings is the latest entry in the genre with their story of the [...]
The world of musical theater is a world of collaboration. Names like Rodgers and Hammerstein have become one item, just as Gilbert and Sullivan have, in the collective conscious. "Topsy-Turvy" is a movie that focuses on a point in the career of [...]
As a rule, your average biography does a good job of telling the life story of the person on which it’s focusing. But, rarely does a biography take on the persona of that person. This is the case with "Man on the Moon", which tells the life [...]
Special effects maestro Ray Harryhausen has fueled nightmares and daydreams for over 40 years. While today’s filmmakers need small armies of technicians to wave their digital wands, Ray was a one-man special effects house, supplying fantastic visions to [...]
Turning a comic book into a feature film is no easy task, as many Hollywood studios can certainly attest. When Golden Harvest, Hong Kong’s largest film studio, and special-effects company Centro teamed up to use one of Hong Kong’s best-selling comic [...]
Honored with four Academy Awards in 1969, George Roy Hill’s "Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid" is still one of the most beloved buddy-movies of a great many film fans. Not only did it practically start the genre, but it still stands out as [...]
Of all the cinematic genres, film fantasy is the most problematic to pull off. The fantasy filmmaker ever strides a tightrope between fleshing out just enough visually to suspend disbelief and allowing the viewer’s imagination to fill in the "gaps, [...]
