Highly Recommended I must have first seen Dark Star in 1978 or ’79, four or five years its original theatrical release. Star Wars (1977), of course, had been a big hit, and probably distributor Jack H. Harris thought Dark Star could attract college-age kids starved for more space swashbuckling, or something.
The Clint Eastwood baseball comedy “Trouble With the Curve†comes to DVD and Blu-ray this week, along with…
Walt Disney has announced that on March 12th, 2013, Robert Zemeckis’ classic film, Who Framed Roger Rabbit will finally arrive on Blu-ray. Why…
Highly Recommended An old-fashioned adventure about mercenaries uncomfortably set amid present-day African political strife, The Wild Geese (1978) delivers the goods and then some, with plenty of exciting action. The film encountered uninformed protests when it was new wrongly labeling it as fascist, while in America poor distribution sabotaged it from becoming the great success it might …
Both of this week’s major home video releases offer new interpretations of time-tested stories.
“Underclassman”: Another entry in the bad action-comedy genre is this dreary flick that plays like a cross between “Beverly Hills Cop” and “21 Jump Street,” minus the entertainment value.
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “Movies & Entertainment in Asia-Pacific” report to their o
 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is a massive hit – as everyone expected – and while it constitutes a bit of a letdown from The Lord of the Rings , it remains an honorable piece of entertainment. And, like its Oscar-winning predecessors, it leaves us on a cliffhanger… with a year to wait before the next part of the story…
Truly a “Win-WinX,” TechRadar and Digiarty Software have teamed up to give away 70 product keys for WinX DVD Ripper Platinum , a $59.95 value. In fact, this Windows-based DVD ripper software makes a great gift because it seamlessly converts DVDs to AVI (DivX/Xvid), MP4, H.264, MPEG, WMV, 3GP, MOV, FLV, M2TS and MTS. It has an easy-to-use interface, but it’s also loaded with customizable features …