Recently I was very impressed by Bette Midler’s touching, sensitive and dramatic performance as Jacqueline Susann in Universal’s release of "Isn’t She Great!" Now the dervish that is Bette Midler, is back in a drop-dead funny comedy… [...]
"The Ninth Gate" returns director Roman Polanski to the supernatural turf previously tread in such earlier efforts as "Repulsion" and "Rosemary’s Baby." ("The Fearless Vampire Killers" played up more of the laughs [...]
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 [...]
Apart from a great feature presentation, Artisan Home Entertainment’s release of “The Ninth Gate” also contains a few dark, hidden features. From the disc’s main menu, go to the “Special Features” section. There highlight the “Trailers” [...]
After the success of the original ’Dragonheart, ’ Universal decided to create a sequel to the movie in which a young stable boy discovers Drake, a baby-dragon, and the last of its kind, hatchet from an egg that was rescued by Bowen. The film tells the [...]
Let me start this review by saying that "Evil Dead II" is one of my all-time favorite films, so it’s a pleasure to get to review it. Further, "Evil Dead II" is also one of the most misunderstood films of the past twenty years, and I [...]
The movie ’What Planet Are You From?’ has an interesting concept. Garry Shandling plays an alien from a planet which is ’way the hell out there’ in space and is inhabited solely by men. Shandling is sent to Earth, where his mission is to allow a [...]
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 [...]
Just little more than year ago the thought of getting to see the entire "Planets Of The Apes" quintology on DVD appeared to be nothing but wishful thinking. Until one day during a visit at ’s offices in Burbank I managed to catch a glimpse of [...]
Disney’s ’Gold Collection’ releases for July are here and I must say, there have been some noticeable improvements. After the ugly transfers featured on ’Pocahontas’ and ’The Fox and the Hound’, Disney’s DVD release of ’Robin Hood’ [...]
