During the 1960’s, Japan’s Nikkatsu Studios hired Seijin Suzuki to make a series of crime melodramas that were to play on the bottom-half of double features. Because these where low budget films, shot in a month’s time, Nikkatsu gave the…
When we last left The Doctor (Matt Smith), Amy Pond (Karen Gillan) and Rory Williams (Arthur Darvill) at the end of the fifth series, a few lingering questions remained, but the universe had been saved and wedding bells were in…
In the interest of full disclosure, I should state that for some odd reason, I’ve never seen the original Fright Night released in 1985. While some may believe that makes me unqualified to judge the recent Craig Gillespie remake. I…
After milking the franchise for all its worth in the in the early 70s and then failing miserably with Tim Burton’s 2001 reboot, Fox wisely to their time before trying to resuscitate Planet of the Apes. Though it’s taken an…
Meet Me in St. Louis, director Vincent Minnelli’s tribute to, as daughter Liza says in the introduction, “the bonds that tie us to each other”, is powerful because the director treats the material with as much seriousness and respect as…
“We set out to change the world,” laments Curt Wild (Ewan McGregor) to New York Herald journalist Arthur Stuart (Christian Bale), “and ended up changing only ourselves.” “What’s wrong with that?” the reporter responds quizzically. “Nothing…if you don’t look at…
The second season of Hot in Cleveland, the TV Land sitcom about three rather shallow Los Angeles transplants living in Cleveland is now available on DVD. Yes, the show is formulaic, but overcomes that, thanks to the cast’s ability to…
I’ve long pondered exactly what “the Lubitsch touch” was. I’ve enjoyed many of his most political satires (Ninotchka, To Be or Not to Be), and been amused by others (Heaven Can Wait, That Uncertain Feeling) In The Cinema of Ernst…
Here’s the deal with this one: Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas Special runs only twenty-five minutes (twenty-two if you don’t count the credits). It was created as a TV special (it first aired less than a week before this disc…
When The Hangover hit theaters back in the summer of ’09, most figured it would be an also-ran, considering it was going up against surefire blockbusters like X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the Star Trek reboot, and Angels and Demons among others….