Posted in: Disc Reviews by David Annandale on September 8th, 2004
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Posted in: Disc Reviews by David Annandale on September 7th, 2004
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Let’s start with the two biggest titles in the collection, which have a life outside thiscollection. North by Northwest is arguably Hitchcock’s greatest exercise in sheer roller-coaster thriller entertainment. As in so many of the director’s films, an insane chain of eventsis set in motion by the smallest of actions, in this case Cary Grant signalling a bell boy just asthe latter is calling out a name. Grant is thus misidentified by the villains, and he is suddenlyrunning fo... his life with no idea why people are trying to kill him. The crop-duster scene is oneof the most famous in all of Hitchcock’s oeuvre.
Posted in: News and Opinions by Archive Authors on September 6th, 2004
Fox Home Entertainment will release the director's cut of Daredevil (starring Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner and Colin Farrell) on November 30th. This 124-minute version (22 minutes longer then the theatrical cut) will be presented in a 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer, along with English DTS 5.1 & Dolby Digital 5.1 as well as Spanish & French Dolby Digital 2.0 audio tracks. The only extras that will be included are a new audio commentary (by director Mark Steven Johnson and Avi Arad) and a “Making of the Director's ...ut” featurette.
Posted in: Disc Reviews by David Annandale on September 4th, 2004
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Posted in: Disc Reviews by David Annandale on September 4th, 2004
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Posted in: Disc Reviews by Archive Authors on September 3rd, 2004
Sometimes, when I am writing my review and I come to the “genre” section, I wish I could find an entry marked “crap”. If there was ever a serious film effort that deserved such an entry, this is it. Let’s be honest… made for TV movies have a bad reputation for a reason. For that matter, so do films that have child actors as their star. This film suffers from the unenviable fate of being both. Mary Tyler Moore and Burt Reynolds may be on the cover, but the kid is in nearly every frame of the film.
This is on... of those sickly-sweet TNT movies that have been produced time and time again (though they usually seem to show up on CBS). The plot is a familiar one. An older divorced woman (Moore) takes in her free-spirited granddaughter, and the little girl’s presence melts her hardened heart. The point is a simple one, but it takes this meandering film a long, long time to get there. I have heard of films that go nowhere fast, but this one goes nowhere slow. The pace is even more broken up with the added necessity of commercial breaks, which sometimes show up at awkward times.
Posted in: Disc Reviews by David Annandale on September 3rd, 2004
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Posted in: Disc Reviews by David Annandale on September 2nd, 2004
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Posted in: Disc Reviews by David Annandale on September 2nd, 2004
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Posted in: Disc Reviews by Archive Authors on September 2nd, 2004
If you think about it, it’s a little surprising that Wonder Woman lasted for three full seasons. To my knowledge, there really hadn’t been any popular female super heroes before this show. Obviously there were a couple peppered around here and there in comics, but as far as movies and television go, it was pretty hard to find any kind of super female hero. Of course, Lynda Carter and that tiny patriotic costume may have had something to do with it.
Almost 40 years later, it’s a little more understandable wh... this show can still move some units. It’s a bit Austin Powers, and a bit Indiana Jones. A show about the 40’s, created in the 70’s, and now available on DVD in the new millennium. It’s about as retro hip as the time that Sammy Davis Jr. guest-starred on Bewitched. Too cool to miss.
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