Articles by Guido Henkel

Creature Comforts makes it to disc

July 18, 2005 // 0 Comments

Nick Aardman’s short film Creature Comforts spawned the BBC series of the same name which is now coming to DVD in September from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Told in a “mockumentary” format and branded with Park’s trademark subtle and [...]

Strand gets Hardcore

July 18, 2005 // 0 Comments

Strand is releasing Hardcore to DVD this fall. “Hardcore” tells the tale of two abused young girls who take revenge on a world that has discarded them. Having both left their hostile homes at the tender age of sixteen, Martha and Nadia meet in a [...]

I Was A Zombie For The FBI is coming to DVD

July 15, 2005 // 0 Comments

In the stormy night skies over 1950s America, their diabolical plan begins: a UFO invasion that will turn the world’s population into zombies using deranged escaped convicts The Brazzo Brothers, a flying alien ‘ZomBall’, and the secret formula to [...]

First Run Features launches The DEFA Sci-Fi Collection

July 15, 2005 // 0 Comments

First Run Features is getting ready to launch The DEFA Sci-Fi Collection on DVD later this month. DEFA (Deutsche Filmaktiengesellschaft) was made up of the state-run studios of the former German Democratic Republic or East Germany. It headquartered in the [...]

H.G. Wells’ War Of The Worlds

July 15, 2005 // 0 Comments

With famous novels of a certain age it is always hard to exactly pinpoint who owns what and as such it sometimes happens that multiple people actually own movie rights in a certain property. This is the case with H.G. Wells’ 1898 novel ’The War Of The [...]

The Committee comes to DVD with Pink Floyd

July 14, 2005 // 0 Comments

The controversial UK documentary The Committee is making its way to DVD from Eclectic DVD along with a long lost musical score. The Committee, starring Paul Jones of Manfred Mann fame, is a unique and controversial document of Britain in the 1960s. [...]

Monsieur N.

July 14, 2005 // 0 Comments

Empire Pictures is bringing us here a fascinating film about "what could have been." In 1815 Napoleon Bonaparte loses the battle of Waterloo and is exiled to the island of St. Helena in the Atlantic Ocean. History tells us that he dies there in [...]

Plenty of Trek news

July 13, 2005 // 0 Comments

Enterprise seasons three and four now have a complete specs list. Both sets look to be pretty complete (sans TV spots). Season 3 includes audio commentary on the episodes North Star and Similitude, plus text commentaries on The Xindi, Impulse and [...]

Warner goes Over the Edge

July 13, 2005 // 0 Comments

Matt Dillon’s screen debut came in the form of the drama based on the true events of a 1970s California town. Now Over the Edge is coming to DVD from Warner Home Entertainment. “Tomorrow’s city…today” is how the planned suburban paradise of New [...]
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