The Great Mouse Detective DVD clips
April 12, 2010
In anticipation of the April 13th release of THE GREAT MOUSE DETECTIVE: Mystery in the Mist Edition on DVD, we present you with these video clips: Featurette: Scotland Yard (bonus) Featurette: Sleuth (bonus) Basil of Baker Street (film) Basil’s Experiment...
The Great Mouse Detective: Mystery in the Mist Edition
April 12, 2010
Based on the series of children’s books entitled Basil of Baker Street by Eve Titus, The Great Mouse Detective (1986) came out at a time when Disney was at one of its lowest ebbs, both creatively and commercially. They were a directionless studio in...
Savage Cinema: 12 Movie Collection
April 7, 2010
The folks at Mill Creek Entertainment have released a box set of 12 exploitation films from the 1960s and 1970s. Some of the films that are part of this eclectic collection include, The Wild Rebels (1967). After Rod Tillman crashes his stock-car during...
Fantastic Mr. Fox
April 6, 2010
When it was announced that Wes Anderson would be adapting Roald Dahl’s short story Fantastic Mr. Fox, it came as something of a surprise. Up to that point, Anderson had only made films based on original material that he created himself or with a co-collaborator....
Wiseguy: The Collector’s Edition
March 30, 2010
Along with Crime Story, Wiseguy was one of the earliest attempts at creating multi-episode story arcs on American network television during the 1980s. Up until that point, conventional wisdom was to have stand-alone episodes, that way a show could easily...
The Men Who Stare at Goats
March 22, 2010
George Clooney is one of those versatile actors that can easily go back and forth between big budget studio films like Ocean’s Eleven (2001) and smaller, more personal independent films like Good Night, and Good Luck (2005). One gets the feeling that...
Bigger Than Life: Criterion Collection
March 19, 2010
Bigger Than Life (1956) is an intriguing work in director Nicholas Ray’s fascinating filmography. He got his start in progressive theater and radio and an interest in social commentary manifested itself in his Hollywood debut assisting Elia Kazan on...
My Neighbor Totoro: Special Edition
March 18, 2010
Hayao Miyazaki’s films have the ability to put you back into that innocent mindset when you were a child and that is what makes them so superior to the current crop of meager Disney fare. His films are filled with beauty and wonder and this is no more...
Up in the Air
March 16, 2010
With the phenomenonal success of Juno (2007), director Jason Reitman could have easily faded into obscurity and been labeled a one-hit wonder. Undaunted, he followed up that film with the equally successful Up in the Air (2009), which, like his previous...
Ponyo
March 15, 2010
There’s always a certain amount of anticipation for a new film by Hayao Miyazaki. This legendary Japanese anime filmmaker is responsible for some of the most imaginative fantasy films ever made with the likes of My Neighbor Totoro (1988) and Spirited...
