Reviews

Out Of Sight

January 23, 1999 // 0 Comments

"Out Of Sight" is an engaging film that nicely blends various elements from different genres like thrillers, dramas and romances, and as a result creates an appealing mix of emotions, visuals and plenty of tension. The film explores a feeling we [...]

From The Earth To The Moon

January 10, 1999 // 0 Comments

"From The Earth To The Moon" is a 12-hour long TV miniseries that was initiated and produced by Tom Hanks for HBO. After its broadcasting it was immediately obvious that this series was an outstanding effort in recounting the events that were [...]

Armageddon

January 1, 1999 // 0 Comments

In the Bible, the word "Armageddon" names the location where the world begins to come to an end. Director Michael Bay’s "Armageddon" shows the end of the world in a different way. The film boasts amazing visual special effects, [...]

Steve Vai: Alien Love Secrets

January 1, 1999 // 0 Comments

Everyone who ever went through a guitar-shredding phase and anyone who enjoyed listening to guitar-based music must have heard the name Steve Vai. Considered by many to be a guitar god because of the dexterity of his amazing fingers, his most striking [...]

Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid

December 20, 1998 // 0 Comments

“Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid” features a great black & white transfer. There are no compression artifacts visible in the picture anywhere in the film and shadow details usually very good. Since the films makes use of a large number of very old [...]

Dracula

December 15, 1998 // 0 Comments

To say Tod Browning’s 1930 version of "Dracula" is a classic movie is still an understatement. The word to put this movie in its historic context has yet to be created. For almost 70 years now the images and sounds of this particular movie [...]

Reap The Wild Wind

December 12, 1998 // 0 Comments

The folks over at Universal Home Video have dug deep into their film vault and come up with a great Technicolor classic for release on DVD. As the market matures, more and more publishers will decide to release more of the material that is suited for [...]

Pecker

December 12, 1998 // 0 Comments

Writer and Director John Waters retains his taste for the odd, masked beneath a bright panorama of his hometown of Baltimore. “Pecker” transfer is the typically fantastic print that many consumers have come to expect from New Line Home Video. The [...]

Waterboy

December 12, 1998 // 0 Comments

Buena Vista Home Entertainment has released “The Waterboy” in the film’s original 1.85:1 widescreen aspect ratio. The image is sharp and well defined, exhibiting no compression artifacts, color bleeding or noise. The compression is very good, as we [...]

The Serpent And The Rainbow

December 10, 1998 // 0 Comments

Director Wes Craven has had the fortune to build two solid franchises during his twenty-year career, both in the horror genre. While his "Scream" movies haunt mostly younger audiences these days, Wes Craven is also the father of Freddy Krueger, [...]
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