ReviewsAug 12, 2005
GLASS SHIELD - DVD review
This is a good example of a filmmaker having his heart set so firmly in the right place, he couldn't see beyond it. One cannot dispute that writer and director Charles Burnett's 1994 movie "The Glass
ReviewsAug 07, 2005
CITY ON FIRE - DVD review
Art imitates art imitates art. How can you not like a film that begins and ends with a roaring gunfight, particularly when the film owes its allegiance to Sam Peckinpah's "The Wild Bunch" and afterwar
ReviewsJul 28, 2005
OLD MAN AND THE SEA - DVD review
Spencer Tracy was a tremendous actor, but he was as badly miscast as Hemingway's Cuban fisherman in the 1958 version of "The Old Man and the Sea" as John Wayne was as Genghis Khan ("The Conquerer," 19
ReviewsJul 19, 2005
ICE PRINCESS - DVD review
No, "Ice Princess" is not about that girl you dated in high school. It's a lightweight Disney teen drama. The "Ice" part comes in because the main character in the story is a teenage girl who goes fr
ReviewsJun 07, 2005
FATHER OF THE BRIDE - DVD review
The first time I saw the 1991 remake of "Father of the Bride" with Steve Martin, I had my doubts going in. Memories of the original, 1950, Vincente Minnelli movie with Spencer Tracy as the flustered p
ReviewsMay 31, 2005
GONE IN 60 SECONDS - DVD review
One of the few times I've known a Director's Cut to turn a bad film into a good one was "Daredevil. " That hasn't changed. The new, unrated Director's Cut of "Gone in Sixty Seconds" contains nine more
ReviewsMay 30, 2005
EAST OF EDEN - DVD review
It's hard to believe that screen icon James Dean, whose name is known to probably every filmgoer in the world, starred in only three films before his tragic death in a car accident. When Warner Bros.
ReviewsMay 29, 2005
SUBMERGED - DVD review
There was a time when Steven Seagal was B-A-A-D in a campy sort of way. Now he's just bad, and whoever convinced him to make "Submerged" should be severely chastised and held up to public ridicule.
ReviewsMay 23, 2005
MAN ON FIRE - DVD review
When you've got a good thing, go with it. Which is exactly what Fox studios are doing with some of their more popular recent hit movies by reissuing them in two-disc Collector's Editions. Basically, t
ReviewsMay 08, 2005
BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK - DVD review
Nowadays, it's hard to think of a mystery or suspense thriller that doesn't include people chasing each other as a lot of stuff around them blows up. But occasionally we've gotten a rarity from Hollyw
ReviewsApr 28, 2005
POCAHONTAS - DVD review
Disney's "Pocahontas" came out the same year, 1995, as Disney/Pixar's "Toy Story," and I wonder if the coincidence didn't signal the beginning of the end for traditional full-length animated features.
ReviewsApr 27, 2005
NAMELESS - DVD review
Maybe it's just harder than ever anymore to come up with anything scary. People have seen so much horror in the movies and so much worse in real life that thinking up something new must be a chore. At