Posted in: Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on November 30th, 2001
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Bram Stoker’s Dracula is the first Horror/Suspense film to hit the SuperBit Circuit. This film is quite good, and the disc is another great release.
Posted in: Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on November 13th, 2001
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I’m guessing here, but I bet that it’s the DVD format’s ability to store vast quantities of information that is behind the sudden home video releases of twenty-year-old TV mini-series. This one is suitably epic.
Posted in: Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on November 12th, 2001
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‘Tis the season of bangs and booms it seems, as the release of big war movies of the past continues. This isn’t one of the best, but, produced as it is by Dino De Laurentis, it is big.
Posted in: Disc Reviews by Archive Authors on November 7th, 2001
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From the haunting soundtrack to the career-making performances from the Robin Cook’s superb cast, Ginger Snaps defines what a modern horror film should be: its artfully crafted reality skirts the edge of the mundane while maintaining an edge of surrealism through progressive applications of noire, violence, and the supernatural. The movie thoroughly involves the audience in a gruesome mockery of teenage evolution. Ginger (Katharine...Isabelle) is a 16 year old high school student; her and her sister Brigitte (Emily Perkins) are two post-millennial Goths trapped in a Scissorhands-esque suburban hell. Ginger is attacked one night by some type of creature, and rapidly degenerates into a monster. Responsibility for stopping her falls on her sister and the town drug dealer as she tears a strip through her classmates.
Posted in: Disc Reviews by Archive Authors on November 4th, 2001
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CTHE has managed to squeeze yet another release out of the Monty Python franchise, this time in the form of a Holy Grail two-disc Special Edition. A single disc version with 2.0 sound streeted in September of 1999. While the discs are loaded with a mountain of extras and the video and sound are definitely better than the 1999 version, I would recommend this set for first time Holy Grail purchasers and suggest that current owners needn’t upgrade. This disc has regrettably bumped into the limitations...of digital enhancement and re-mastering; while it may be “better” (i.e.: it offers 5.1 versus the previous releases’ 2.0), the 1975 source material can only be pushed so far and the sound a video are just not great enough to justify repurchase.
Posted in: Disc Reviews by Archive Authors on October 16th, 2001
I must say that upon learning about the SuperBit Series from Columbia-Tristar, I was very intrigued. I did not know what to really expect… no special features? I must say, that at least for Fifth Element: SuperBit, I am very impressed. Fifth Element was originally released on DVD a few years ago with no special features and very good video and audio quality… similar to the SuperBit ideology. Before I get into this disc, here is a bit about the plot…
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Posted in: Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on October 6th, 2001
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This is an interesting film; not for the fact that it is a really good film, but for the fact that it was totally shot digitally. This method of filmmaking creates an interesting feel for the film, as if it was shot with a home video camera chronicling the life of the characters.
Posted in: Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on September 12th, 2001
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In the wake of the successful remake of The Fly came this retread of the 1958 B-picture classic.
Posted in: Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on September 12th, 2001
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This is something of a surprise: a rather nice presentation of a film almost universally characterized as misbegotten.
Posted in: Disc Reviews by Archive Authors on August 30th, 2001
After watching this epic film, I could see why it was the winner of multiple Academy Awards including Best Picture. I have to thank Columbia-Tristar for presenting this film in a DVD release that actually enhances the viewing experience of this amazing picture. Sure, the 190 minute running time is not for those with no patience, but it is definitely worth watching.
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