"Double Jeopardy" was one of the action highlights of last year at the box office. An action murder thriller in the vein of "The Fugitive" and interestingly enough, also starring Tommy Lee Jones. Although some elements of "Double [...]
In their line of Italian horror movies and thrillers, Anchor Bay Entertainment as repeatedly released some previously hard-to-get movies on DVD in their uncut and unrated versions. One of their latest efforts in that direction is director Armando [...]
I like movies that come from the "What if?" or the "Wouldn’t it be cool if?" school of filmmaking. These are movies that start with a very basic central premise that is usually built around one idea or even one scene. For example, [...]
Humphrey Bogart was the epitome of the classic tough-as-nails detective. In many films, his characters became iconic portrayals of heroes and unlikely-heroes alike, as he conquered the world with his films and created memorably movie history. Many of his [...]
Hercule Poirot, the Belgian master-detective from the imagination and novels of British crime author Agatha Christie has always been one of my favorite characters of classic mystery thrillers. Unfortunately most impersonations of the character on film [...]
The first time I was watching "Dead Calm", I remember that I was completely captivated by this menacing thriller. Although I was familiar with Sam Neill at the time, mostly from hisdiabolic performance of Damien in "Omen III: The Final [...]
I had seen "The Odessa File" a long time ago on TV and I remembered it as being a rather good movie. In all honesty however, I had forgotten how powerful this movie really is. Fortunately Columbia TriStar Home Video now gives us the chance to [...]
While there are several television programs that I enjoy, there haven’t been that many that I would like to have on DVD, so that I could always have a pristine copy of the show. Sure, like a lot of people I’m hoping Fox will release “The Simpsons” [...]
And once again we have a classic case of a movie that has been misrepresented by the studio, for some reason cloaking its real nature behind a presentation that has little or nothing to do with the movie’s original intentions. This time it is Columbia [...]
In 1969, Italian writer and director Dario Argento released his first film and immediately garnered accolades for his highly suspenseful thriller. The movie was "The Bird With The Crystal Plumage" and has single-handedly created a genre of its [...]
