ReviewsJun 19, 2006
CARRIE'S WAR - DVD review
Years ago, you never heard much about the evacuation of children to the countryside when London was under attack during World War II. Lately, though, film versions of fictional accounts are shedding l
ReviewsJun 03, 2006
FAREWELL TO THE KING - DVD review
Travel books were extremely popular in the mid-1800s, especially those that described adventures in exotic places. Westerners absolutely loved reading Herman Melville's accounts in Typee and Omoo
ReviewsMay 23, 2006
PLATOON - DVD review
Like Oliver Stone, who offers a commentary on the film and a dozen deleted scenes, I hadn't seen "Platoon" for a good many years. Watching it again, 20 years after it won an Oscar for Best Picture, I
ReviewsMay 22, 2006
PHANTOM OF LIBERTY - DVD review
It is redundant to describe a Luis Bunuel film as strange or eccentric – that's what the term "a Luis Bunuel film" means. In fifty years of filmmaking, Bunuel produced a body of images and ideas that
ReviewsMay 21, 2006
BLAZING SADDLES - HD DVD review
Although the film is more than three decades old, "Blazing Saddles" still looks great, more so now in its new high-definition transfer. With video quality that is better than ever, sound that is bette
ReviewsMay 18, 2006
CRIMSON TIDE - DVD review
How can you beat a title as good as 1995's "Crimson Tide"? The words of the title are short, concise, catchy, and, more important, provocative. Well, one way to outdo the title is to have Denzel Washi
ReviewsMay 16, 2006
HERE COME THE BRIDES: THE COMPLETE 1ST SEASON - DVD review
Some TV series are likable in spite of themselves. Take "Here Come the Brides," a western adventure-comedy that ran just two seasons from 1968-70. The characters are as stock as can be, the situations
ReviewsMay 12, 2006
CON AIR - DVD review
If you're like me, you think of Jerry Bruckheimer as the quintessential producer of dumb-action popcorn flicks, and if you like this kind of thing, "Con Air" is one of the quintessential dumb-action p
ReviewsMay 05, 2006
LUCY & DESI COLLECTION: LONG, LONG TRAILER / FOREVER, DARLING / TOO MANY GIRLS - DVD review
"The Lucy & Desi Collection" comprises a trio of big-screen movies that Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz made as a team. Two of the films capitalize on the couple's hit TV show, "I Love Lucy," while the ea
ReviewsApr 30, 2006
CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF - DVD review
I have to admit that of all of America's great playwrights, I've always found Tennessee Williams the most distant from my own way of life. I mean, compared to, say, Arthur Miller or Eugene O'Neill, Wi
ReviewsMar 22, 2006
42ND STREET - DVD review
"You're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star! " Hollywood has made scores of backstage musicals over the years, some of them like "Cabaret" and "Chorus Line" more meaningful and
ReviewsMar 16, 2006
TEN LITTLE INDIANS - DVD review
Afficionados of the genre often point to Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None" as the best mystery novel ever written. Is it any wonder, then, that there have been so many screen versions of it