BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: UniversalMSRP: $29.98RATED: PG-13RUNNING TIME: 119 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES:• Commentary by Joss Whedon• Deleted Scenes• Joss Whedon’s Introduction to Serenity• What’s In A Firefly• Re-Igniting the Firefly• Outtakes• Future History: The Story of the Earth That Was No time to be humble. I’m the ideal Serenity reviewer. I’ve never seen Firefly. … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: Warner Bros.MSRP: $19.98RATED: NRRUNNING TIME: 71 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES:� Commentary� Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy� Trailer How can a director have more than one best film? The critic’s card of relativity. For streamlined psychological horror, it’s impossible to beat Cat People (reviewed here), Val Lewton’s first production … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: Warner Bros.MSRP: $19.98RATED: NRRUNNING TIME: 73/71 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES:• Commentary on each film• Trailers Cat People If Universal horror kept kids happy in the early ’40s, RKO and Val Lewton provided sophisticated adult escapism. Despite titles that promised exotic and gruesome images, their horror was pure class. Of Lewton’s productions … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: Subversive CinemaMSRP: $24.95RATED: RRUNNING TIME: 92 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES:• The Women of Candy Snatchers• Commentary• Lobby Cards• Poster• Trailers You don’t see proper exploitation movies anymore. Tarantino can try all he wants, but his characters make way too much sense. When I sit down to chew on some exploitation, it … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: Tartan VideoMSRP: $24.99RATED: RRUNNING TIME: 120 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES:• Deleted Scenes• Behind the Scenes• Cast Interviews• Trailers Hope no one who steps into Spider Forest likes their genres individually packaged, because this Korean murder mystery is a collision of crime, the supernatural and melancholy romance with a total disregard for … Continue reading
Stephen Gaghan is a tired, talkative man. I caught him at the very tail end of his Syriana PA tour, the morning after a Q&A session that apparently went nearly two hours, and probably could have gone twice that. He’s been at the promotion grind for a while now, and so some of his responses … Continue reading
I’ll keep this brief. This isn’t a requiem or a review. It’s just me taking a moment to say that if you live near one of the 169 screens now showing Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and you haven’t yet seen it, you’re missing an opportunity. Not just to see a good movie; this season is … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: FoxMSRP: $19.98RATED: RRUNNING TIME: 95 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES:• Two Documentaries• Commentary by David Cronenberg • Deleted and Extended Scenes • Original Script and Cronenberg Rewrite• Promo materials, Trailer, Original Featurettes and Articles• Makeup and Effects Test Footage• Alternate EndingTry to show me a better monster movie than The Fly. If … Continue reading
BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: FoxMSRP: $19.98RATED: RRUNNING TIME: 105 MinutesSPECIAL FEATURES:• Two Documentaries • Deleted SCene and Alternate Ending • Promo Materials and Trailers• Commentary by Chris Walas and Bob Burns• Storyboard to Film Comparisons Here’s the easy way to do this review: print out my take on The Fly and hold it … Continue reading