Note: Puccio wrote the primary review and the Parting Thoughts paragraph. Feng wrote about the Video and Audio quality of the DVDs. Both Puccio and Feng wrote about the Extras. For a lot of people who watched the original “Star…
“The Lion King 2: Simba’s Pride” is the 1998, direct-to-video sequel to Disney’s enormously successful “Lion King” of 1994. It was followed more recently by the stage musical of “The Lion King” and yet another direct-to-video, “The Lion King 1…
There are two major problems that plague Disney’s 1979 release, “The Black Hole.” The first is that it’s a Disney film, meaning it’s primarily aimed at kids and features some pretty juvenile material. The second is that it was produced…
Here’s a film only a dedicated splatter fan could like. It’s really awful, but in fairness “The Driller Killer” from 1979 has a couple of things going for it. It was the first major theatrical release (discounting some early, short…
When “Showgirls” premiered in theaters in 1995, it was supposed to be a straightforward drama, the struggles of a young woman clawing her way to the top of the chorus line, but as word got around that it was an…
How old were you when you first realized or first discovered that there was no Santa Claus? Six? Eight? How old were you when you realized or discovered that not every Santa on every street corner and in every department…
“The hotel business is about strangers. And strangers will always surprise you. They come to hotels in the night to do dirty things, and in the morning it’s our job to make things look pretty again.” –Sergi Lopez, “Dirty Pretty…
ou know the phrase “Pretty as a picture”? Well, “Under the Tuscan Sun” is just that, the very quintessence of a pretty picture. The movie is frothy and light and hasn’t a brain in its head, but it’s so beautiful…
Since their inception the Disney folks have been shrewd enough to know how to maximize their profits. In the beginning they started the practice of re-releasing their major animated features to theaters every few years to the delight of ever-newer…
Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” (1865) and “Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There” (1871) have been brought to the screen many times, but, oddly enough, none of the multitude of versions has been entirely satisfactory. You’d think…