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Charlie Wilson's War
With a cast like Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and Philip Seymour Hoffman under the direction of Mike Nichols, "Charlie Wilson's War" had to be a good film – or so you would think. It was for that reason that I decided to give the movie a [...]
Deliverance
It's no secret that the seventies brought some groundbreaking cinema to the forefront immediately after the huge success of "Easy Rider". It was the end of the John Ford/David Lean era of hugely expensive epics and the beginning of [...]
Superman: The Movie – Four-Disc Special Edition
Look! Up in the sky! It's…well, you know. We are all more than familiar with the Superman mythology by now, and over the past few weeks, it seems that every incarnation of the comic book legend has been spruced up, repackaged, and placed [...]
Superman: The Movie
It's simply been a long time since I last sat down to watch the original "Superman", or any of it's sequels for that matter. I now had the chance to view the newest addition to the HD-DVD catalog lineup, 1978's "Superman: The [...]
Ed And His Dead Mother
Looking at the cover and reading the back of the packaging immediately conjured up memories of Peter Jackson’s ’Dead Alive’ when I received a review copy of Pathfinder Home Entertainment’s ’Ed And His Dead Mother. In many ways the story [...]
Superman: The Movie
Wednesday, December 20, 1978. I had just gotten over a bout with walking pneumonia. One benefit was it kept me out of the 10th grade for four days. The down side was that it prevented me from seeing "Superman: The Movie" during its opening [...]
