Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events
November 16, 2005
Over the last few years children have been treated to the magical tales of Harry Potter through a series of blockbuster novels and movies, but now comes something for those children who found Potter a bit mainstream: a bleak, askew story of gothic proportions,...
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl: Special Edition
November 8, 2005
For many years pirate movies have been box office poison. One only has to look as far back as Roman Polanski’s misfire, Pirates (1986) and the mega-budget flop, Cutthroat Island (1995) to see how low the genre has sunk since the heady days of Errol...
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman: Season 1
November 7, 2005
Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman came along at a time when Superman’s popularity was at a low. It had been ages since a movie had come out (the abysmal Superman IV: The Quest for Peace in 1987). At the time, Time Warner had absorbed DC...
Danger: Diabolik
November 6, 2005
Mario Bava was known predominantly for making classic horror films like Black Sabbath (1963) but he also essayed several other genres in his long, illustrious career: sword and sandal epics, science fiction and, with Danger: Diabolik (1968), a comic book...
Jaws: 30th Anniversary Edition
November 5, 2005
The dominance of the Hollywood summer blockbuster can be attributed (or blamed depending on how you feel about them) to two filmmakers: Steven Spielberg with Jaws (1975) and George Lucas with Star Wars (1977). But Spielberg was there first with Jaws,...
Conan the Barbarian: Special Edition
October 26, 2005
Originally conceived in 1932 as a comic book character, Conan built his status and finally became a movie in 1982. But this is no comic book superhero movie – Conan does not have superpowers, he is just big and strong. Conan is the anti-hero, he does...
National Treasure
October 4, 2005
Nicolas Cage has run the gamut of the action film genre. He’s played the reluctant action hero in The Rock (1996), a cartoonish icon in Con Air (1997) and the amoral bad guy in Face/Off (1997). With National Treasure (2004) he essays a new variation—the...
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou: Two-Disc Special Edition
October 4, 2005
There’s always a certain amount of trepidation when a filmmaker like Wes Anderson, known for making intimate and personal films, starts making movies on a more ambitious scale – bigger budgets and movie stars in an attempt to appeal to larger audience...
The Dust Factory
September 9, 2005
Intelligent movies for young teenagers are hard to come by. They are either hopelessly saccharine Disney-fied movies that no kid could ever relate to or 90-minute product placements. Both types tend to leave little to the imagination. Every so often a...
The Incredibles: Collector’s Edition
August 29, 2005
The Incredibles (2004) marks the first effort from the collaboration between Brad Bird (responsible for The Iron Giant) and Pixar. Where Warner Brothers had no idea how to market Bird’s first film, Disney had no problem with promoting his new movie...
