Lost: Season 2
September 8, 2006
Going into the 2005-2006 television season, Lost found its niche market as one of the only major network T.V. science fiction/horror themed shows challenged by a whole slew of newcomers: Invasion, Night Stalker, Supernatural, Surface and Threshold. Would...
Romancing the Stone: Special Edition
September 6, 2006
Out of all of the movies in the 1980s that were influenced by Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Romancing the Stone (1984) was arguably the best of the bunch (even if it was written before Raiders) because it managed to successfully blend action and adventure...
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.: The Complete Series
July 17, 2006
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. was a short-lived television program that attempted to resurrect westerns like The Wild Wild West and Maverick complete with lots of two-fisted action and adventure and a good dose of humour supplied by its star, Bruce...
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: The Ultimate Collector’s Edition
June 12, 2006
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) marked the first time that legendary actors Paul Newman and Robert Redford teamed up on the big screen together and the results were one of the classic buddy action movies of all time. Chemistry is crucial in...
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...
King Kong
March 31, 2006
You’d think after spending five years working on the most epic of trilogies Peter Jackson would take time out, or do a smaller project, and for a while it looked like The Lovely Bones would be his next film; a follow-up of sorts to Heavenly Creatures...
Serenity
March 10, 2006
Can’t Stop The Signal is the tagline for Serenity, the directorial debut of TV favourite Joss Whedon of Buffyand Angel fame, and it has a clever double meaning. To begin with, the story of Serenityoriginated with a cult TV show from 2002 called...
The Brothers Grimm
February 23, 2006
The past few years have been tough for Terry Gilliam. Amidst several false starts, including, most famously, the aborted attempt to make The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (as documented in Lost in La Mancha), the veteran filmmaker was desperate to make a...
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...
Serenity
February 19, 2006
In 2002, Joss Whedon was enjoying considerable success writing and directing episodes for three TV shows that he had created: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and Firefly. The latter was his new show and pet project – a funky hybrid of the science fiction...
