Iranian filmmaker Babak Payami wowed critics worldwide with his drama Secret Ballot. Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment will be releasing the film this winter. A soldier stationed on a deserted beach wakes up and discovers that it’s not going to be an [...]
Of the great directors of the twentieth century, few have had their films so butchered and bungled as D.W. Griffith If course some of this might have something to do with the fact that some of his films are close to 90 years old. Kino International is [...]
’Big Trouble’ is an entertaining little comedy by ’Men in Black’ director Barry Sonnenfeld that stars a great comedy cast lead by Tim Allen. But also Omar Epps, Dennis Farina, Janeane Garofalo, Rene Russo, tom Sizemore and Stanley Tucci throw in [...]
Dana Carvey’s big comeback was less successful than planned, but Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment is sticking by the film, with a new fairly packed DVD of the comedy Master of Disguise. Pistachio Disguisey, can’t understand why he is so easily able [...]
Among guitarists, Steve Lukather takes a very special place for a number of reasons. On the one hand he is the guitarist and singer in one of the West Coast’s musically most polished bands, Toto, with which he has celebrated stellar successes in the [...]
Current magazine cover favorite Reese Witherspoon is making good on her latest theatrical outing Sweet Home Alabama. The romantic comedy will make it to DVD in February from Buena Vista Home Entertainment. Melanie Carmichael has tried hard to hide the [...]
Criterion just made the unexpected announcement that the Terry Gilliam classic Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas will be getting the Criterion treatment in months to come. “We were somewhere around Barstow when the drugs began to take hold.” It is 1971, [...]
When I purchased my first DVD player in the spring of 1997, I tried to explain how cool it was to everyone I knew. Oddly the first question anyone ever asked me was whether the 1985 filmed adaptation of Death of a Salesman was on the fledgling format and [...]
The Clint Eastwood mystery Blood Work will be coming to DVD soon from Warner Brothers Home Entertainment as previously announced, but the DVD will actually include several extras not mentioned earlier. The DVD will be made available in both a fullscreen [...]
Pathfinder Pictures has recently released the Hong Kong martial arts film ’Master of the Flying Guillotine’ on DVD. It is the 1975 Yu Wang movie ’Du bi quan wang da po xue di zi’ which is also known as ’The One Armed Boxer Vs. the Flying [...]
