Moonstruck: Deluxe Edition
April 17, 2006
When MGM first released Moonstruck (1987) on DVD they inexplicably did so with an inferior pan and scan transfer. They’ve rectified this situation with a new deluxe edition that restores its proper aspect ratio and with a collection of new extras. Moonstruck...
Earth: Final Conflict Season 1
April 16, 2006
Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry died in 1991, then in 1996 his wife found papers detailing a pilot and series outline for a show that was ditched in favour of Star Trek: The Motion picture. In 1997 that series was developed and broadcast, that forgotten...
3 Films by Louis Malle
April 13, 2006
French filmmaker Louis Malle was born in 1932 in Thumeries which is located in Northern France. He grew up in a wealthy family and attended a Catholic boarding school near Paris at the age of 12. After World War II, Malle studied political science in...
The Complete Mr. Arkadin
April 12, 2006
By 1955, Orson Welles’ Hollywood career was over having burned his final bridges with Tinseltown over The Lady From Shanghai (1947). He would direct Touch of Evil (1958) for Universal a few years later but only at Charlton Heston’s behest. Mr. Arkadin...
Wonder Showzen: Season 1
April 11, 2006
Last year a battle raged on MTV2 between rival T.V. shows Stankervision and Wonder Showzen on who could be more controversial and offensive. Stankervision apparently won as it was cancelled after one season when sponsors pressured MTV to yank the show...
Good Night, and Good Luck
April 7, 2006
2005 was a good year for politically and socially conscious films – Syriana, Munich, The Constant Gardener and Good Night, and Good Luck. The last film marked George Clooney’s sophomore directorial effort (the first being Confessions of a Dangerous...
King Kong
April 6, 2006
King Kong (2005) is Peter Jackson’s epic, mega-budget, fanboy love letter to the film that inspired him to become a movie director in the first place. Clocking in at double the running time of the original, Jackson’s film is an ambitious juggernaut...
Planet of the Apes: The Legacy Collection
April 5, 2006
“Get your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ape!” And with those words, Planet of the Apes (1968) entered our popular culture and became one of the greatest science fiction films of all time. It is more than an exciting action film; Apes is also...
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
April 4, 2006
Carefully marketed to be the next franchisable fantasy film alongside The Lord of the Rings trilogy and the Harry Potter series, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) defeated Peter Jackson’s over-hyped juggernaut, King...
Brokeback Mountain
April 3, 2006
Now that the hype surrounding Brokeback Mountain (2005) has started to die down, one can get past all of the superlatives heralding Ang Lee’s film as a classic and all of the jokey puns on the film’s title and concentrate on what makes it really work:...
