Chaplin: 15th Anniversary Edition
October 17, 2008
Adapted from My Autobiography by Charles Chaplin and Chaplin: His Life and Art by David Robinson, Chaplin (1992) was a prestigious, big budget biopic about the life of legendary English comedian Charles Chaplin. While the film was criticized for taking...
Ultraviolet: Unrated Extended Cut
June 28, 2006
The film presents a future ravaged by a disease known as hemophagia that mutates its victims giving them enhanced speed, strength and intelligence but with a drastically shortened life-span of 12 years. The government tried to eliminate all of the diseased...
Dazed and Confused: Criterion Collection
June 2, 2006
After the low budget success of the independent film Slacker (1990), Richard Linklater followed it up with Dazed and Confused (1993) and learned a harsh lesson about moving from the world of indie cinema to making a movie for a major Hollywood studio....
The Three Musketeers
February 20, 2006
To date there have been numerous cinematic adaptations of Alexandre Dumas’ novel The Three Musketeers that go back to 1903. More than a hundred years later the first version rendered in 3-D was made by Paul W.S. Anderson, the man responsible for the...
Resident Evil: Deluxe Edition
December 30, 2004
While it’s certainly true that video games have come a long way since the heady days of Pac Man, with elaborate game worlds, large casts of characters and detailed plots, they don’t always translate well into a coherent movie. Paul W.S. Anderson,...
Resident Evil
November 3, 2003
Mouths were watering for years before it was finally announced a big screen version of everybodies favourite horror survival game was in production with George Romero writing the script and Sarah Michelle Gellar rumoured to star. Sadly Romero was fired...
The Fifth Element
November 1, 2001
After critical success with indie movies like Nikita, The Big Blue and Leon, Luc Besson surprised everyone by making his next project a $90 million science-fiction adventure about a taxi driver who helps save the world. When he was thirteen, Besson dreamed...