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Gino Sassani on October 30th, 2008
As a fan of the Universal horror films from the 1930’s and 1940’s I have a deeper appreciation for Mel Brooks and his rather silly Young Frankenstein than most. If you watch the film without the references, I don’t think it holds up very well at all. The jokes are often repeated enough times that they lose any effectiveness they might have had. Just about all of the performances are over the top. From that quick look one might dismiss Young Frankenstein as a minor effort that was mildly amusing in its day, but without any real staying power. So, what is it that has made this not only the best film from the mind of Mel Brooks, but a perennial classic 30 years later? For the answer to that question you must return to that golden age of horror. Read the rest of this entry »
Brian White on October 30th, 2008
Back in 2005, Sin City was one of those DVD movies I bought as a blind purchase, and coincidentally, the first movie I ever watched on my brand new 50” Sony LCD rear projection HDTV at the time. I remember just being completely mesmerized by the movie’s unique, and at the time, revolutionary coloring process. The majority of the film is rendered in black and white but contains certain color palettes to emphasize specific objects and scenes. I was really taken aback by this as I am usually just into the cookie-cutter kind of traditional color looking films and not often moved by artistic attempts at being different. Read the rest of this entry »
Kristina Kehler on October 28th, 2008
Looking back over the last twenty or even thirty years of horror films, we’ve been on a downward slope with the occasional spike of decency. In a market filled with remakes, blood and guts, and redundancy, there’s a bit of solace thinking back on movies like The Omen. An undeniable favorite in the Christian end times corner of the horror universe. Packaged along with Richard Donner’s classic are two sequels and a remake, will they follow the overall downward trend? Or are we going to see a spike, maybe even a spark in inventive and horrific film making? Read the rest of this entry »
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Brian White on October 26th, 2008
On many levels, I am still trying to cope with the sheer disappoint that was Ang Lee’s 2003 Hulk. I guess I can pretty much give up on the open case I have with theatre management for getting my money back after suffering through that movie. I could not understand how they could screw up a movie about such an iconic and powerful character as the Hulk. I mean, they have the successful longevity of the comic book series and the cult television series to reference and they still got it wrong. I suppose you can say I was a bit reluctant when I heard about the Hulk reboot that Universal was planning. Read the rest of this entry »
Gino Sassani on October 24th, 2008
Pierce Brosnan only got to play James Bond for four films, which is unfortunate when you watch a film like Die Another Day. He’s always had a great presence in the part, but watching this movie gives you tremendous appreciation of what he brought to the character and to the franchise. In such a short time he made the part his own in a way that only Sean Connery had done before. Read the rest of this entry »
Gino Sassani on October 23rd, 2008
The title of Roger Moore’s 5th Bond film actually comes from a short story written by Fleming and not a novel as most of the earlier films did. To make up for the limited source material another Fleming short, Risico, was added to the mix and the screenplay would draw from both works. I’ve already said that Moore is my least favorite Bond, but I have to admit that I like For Your Eyes Only quite a bit. Coming on the heels of one of the absolute worst Bond films ever, Moonraker, it was a welcome return to a simpler adventure that relied more on the characters than gadgets and out of this world locations. Read the rest of this entry »
Gino Sassani on October 22nd, 2008
Thunderball was actually the first James Bond story that began life, not as a Fleming novel, but a film screenplay. Long before Harry Saltzman acquired the film rights to the novels, Fleming himself considered bringing Bond to film. He worked with screenwriter Kevin McCoy to write an original James Bond film. Fleming eventually grew discouraged trying to make the film, and the story elements were used to create a new Bond novel instead. When the book was released, Kevin McCoy realized that he had created many of these story elements and sued for his share of the credit and money. This would make the Thunderball story a unique one in the James Bond collection. Read the rest of this entry »
Gino Sassani on October 22nd, 2008
Live And Let Die wasn’t Roger Moore’s first brush with James Bond. It wasn’t even his second. When Saltzman and Broccoli first began assembling their team, Roger Moore was their second choice, after Cary Grant, to play the Fleming spy. Moore was doing television at the time and so was unavailable. He did, however, play the spy in a television skit spoofing the character, which is included in the special features of this release. When Sean Connery left the franchise for a second time, presumably for good, the search was on again to fill the role. Read the rest of this entry »
Gino Sassani on October 20th, 2008
In just a few weeks from this release Daniel Craig will star for his second time in the 22nd film in the James Bond franchise. A lot has changed over the decades, to be sure. It’s hard to imagine that it was back in 1962 (1963 here in the US) when a relatively unknown film actor named Sean Connery took on the role of 007 for the first time in a film. There was a forgotten television event that was not a part of the official film franchise. Now with the release of another new Bond film, this is an excellent time to go back to where it all began. The Blu-ray release of that original film, Dr. No, is the perfect opportunity to rediscover the roots of Ian Fleming’s super spy. No matter how long you’ve been a fan or how many times you’ve seen Dr. No, I promise this will be a new experience for you. Read the rest of this entry »
Gino Sassani on October 20th, 2008
James Bond had finally arrived into the big time with the publication of From Russia With Love. It would become one of Fleming’s most popular books. It didn’t hurt that President John Kennedy gave a list of his 10 favorite books of all time, and this one was on it. It was a natural follow-up for EON to film. There was a surge in popularity of Cold War films and books at the time, and this one fit more than most of them did. Just having Russia in the title was good for a couple extra million at the box office. Fortunately the team of Sean Connery and Terrance Young were on board early for this film. Read the rest of this entry »
Brian White on October 18th, 2008
I was very disappointed when Fox announced the release of Prison Break Season 3 on Blu-ray with no word about including the incredible Season 2 on the Blu-ray format. I was one of the late bloomers who did not watch the first 3 seasons of Prison Break while it was airing live on television. I was too busy with my favorite TV show, 24, to pay any attention to Prison Break. When I first saw a commercial for Season 1 I thought how dumb…when they finally break out of prison then what…the show would be over. Wow! Was I ever wrong! It was during the recent writer’s strike that I was looking for something to watch on my favorite format…Blu-ray. I heard so many good things about the show Prison Break that I decided to give Season 1 a chance when I found a new Blu-ray set for a real attractive price on eBay. My wife had never really even heard of the show. We were both instantly hooked and glued to our television viewing seats that week, engrossed in the never-ending cliffhangers that Fox River’s criminal society provided us. Read the rest of this entry »
Kristina Kehler on October 15th, 2008
Not long since his last disappointing release, M. Night Shyamalan hopes to bring some credibility back to his once reputable name with The Happening. Plagued with accusations of plagiarism and labelled as a one trick pony, bringing some credibility back to the table wouldn’t be an easy feat for anyone. But we have to hand it to Shyamalan, The Sixth Sense and Signs are easily classics in their genres, I’ll even give The Village a nod. But on the flipside, out of six major releases, only two have really hit it big, bating at one third and barely making back it’s budget I’m not sure I like the odds going into this one. Read the rest of this entry »
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Brian White on October 14th, 2008
I remember dragging my ex-girlfriend to see this movie in the theatre on Valentine’s Day back in 2003. She was very surprised as she had always known me to be very anti-Ben Affleck. With the exception of Good Will Hunting I have never been a fan of his wooden characters he portrayed or that grin he always seems to proudly display. Maybe it is just me? I was going to pass on this movie completely until two reasons persuaded me not to. The first was the awesome music soundtrack. I remember having a copy of this CD a month before the movie even came out. It was then that I discovered the amazing lungs of Evanescence’s Amy Lee. There are a total of two Evanescence songs playing during two key emotional moments in the movie. The second was a referral from a friend who lives out-of-state who basically encouraged me to put my dislike for Ben Affleck aside and check this movie out for what it was… a comic book superhero movie. Read the rest of this entry »
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Jamie Shuhyta on October 9th, 2008
Take a little Mad Max, add a little Escape from New York, mix in some 28 Days/Weeks Later, and what do you get? A fun little movie entitled Doomsday. Doomsday was released in 2008 and for the most part was not a box office success. The film was a British production, which may have actually hurt its sales because it was not marketed very well in the US. Doomsday is written and directed by Neil Marshall, who has brought us such gems as Dog Soldiers and The Descent, so my expectations were high when I first watched it in theaters. Today I will review Doomsday on Blu-ray, also note this is Universal’s first entry into the Blu market. Read the rest of this entry »
Jamie Shuhyta on August 22nd, 2008
Woo… no one can be told exactly what The Matrix is…. oh oops… wrong movie. Ok so every time I see Keanu Reeves all I can ever picture is Neo and that damn Matrix, talk about a lasting role for an actor. But as you know The Matrix hasn’t hit Blu-ray yet, it’s coming in Oct, so today I will review one of Keanu’s other flicks, Street Kings on Blu. Read the rest of this entry »
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Jamie Shuhyta on August 22nd, 2008
I’ll admit I’m not a really fan of TV shows; I just really can’t get into the idea of watching an hour long episode every week that just drags you on until the next episode. For me it’s always been about movies, you sit down for a view and you get the whole story, complete and done, I don’t know I just like that concept. But as a reviewer sometimes you get the chance to view something a little different than your used to, today I got that chance as I sat down to review the Blu-ray release of Mad Men. Read the rest of this entry »
Gino Sassani on August 15th, 2008
“That’s always the way it goes”.
When The Mummy broke the bank in 1999, a sequel was more than assured. Today it’s very common that participants are signed to multi-picture deals to assure the ability of doing a swift return to the cash cow. All of the first film’s characters, at least those that survived the first go around, have returned. Some of the actors had gotten a bit better known in the 2 years between the films. Oded Fehr was starting to get a lot of both television and film work fresh off of his Ardeth Bey performance. Rachel Weisz wasn’t yet the Oscar winner she would be from The Constant Gardener, but stints in Enemies At The Gate and Beautiful Creatures made her far more familiar between these films. Read the rest of this entry »
Gino Sassani on August 15th, 2008
It’s interesting that I’ve gotten these Mummy films at the same time that I was finally able to break out of here and see the third, and most recent, entry into the Mummy franchise. I rather enjoyed the new film, but after rewatching the first one again I can’t help but notice how much better it really was than either of the other two. At first I thought it might have something to do with the anticipation of that first film along with the general “newness” of it all. Now that I’ve seen the first one several times over almost as many formats, I know I couldn’t have been more wrong. Read the rest of this entry »
