Road House: Deluxe Edition
July 18, 2006
After the success of Dirty Dancing (1987) made Patrick Swayze a household name, he followed it up with two unimpressive movies and then came Road House (1989) which was a modest success commercially and savaged by critics as he unsuccessfully tried to...
Mr. and Mrs. Smith: Unrated
June 6, 2006
Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005) is one of those critic-proof movies. It’s a big, loud action movie starring two of the biggest movie stars on the planet – Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. Both, incidentally, were in need of a box office hit as Pitt was coming...
Platoon: 20th Anniversary Edition
May 30, 2006
While Platoon (1986) was certainly not the first film about the Vietnam War, it was one of the first to focus on the average foot soldier in an honest and authentic way. Oliver Stone’s film really put you in the jungle with these guys as only someone...
Transporter 2
April 2, 2006
Ex-Special Forces man Frank Martin is back for more impromptu violence with household objects as the little boy he looks after is abducted by nasty men with accents. There’s a certain appeal about both the Transporter films and their leading man,...
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
February 8, 2006
You can see why the tabloids had a field day over the “alleged” romance between Pitt and Jolie. Their chemistry in Mr. and Mrs. Smith is nothing short of electric. It’s sad then that the focus was on their private lives rather than the film...
Crash
February 1, 2006
Thanks to a canny marketing campaign and a star-studded cast, Crash (2004) was a hot topic, must-see movie when it came out in theatres earlier this year. Like Steve Soderbergh’s Traffic (2000), Crash addresses a major problem that continues to plague...
The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury
December 27, 2004
“Dark Fury” tells the story of what happened after “Pitch Black”. The great thing about this is that they used anime as a medium, which is so much more versatile than standard film. Vin Diesel still voices the character of Riddick,...
Pitch Black Special Edition
December 5, 2004
One of the best low-budget sci-fi films of its time is coming to special edition DVD. Pitch Black, starring Vin Diesel as the mysterious rouge character Richard. B. Riddick finally gets the treatment it so deserved. Pitch Black was a surprising success...
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
August 22, 2003
There are those films in cinematic history that have redefined the way other films are made. The first talkie had silent film stars running for the hills. Snow White proved that a feature length animation can work. Jurassic Park spelt the end for the...