Mortal Kombat: Part I
Review of New Line / Warner Home Video’s Blu-ray edition of Mortal Kombat (1995) , plus some editorial blather on the franchise and its latest online incarnation…
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Big Science on the IMAX screen, Part I
This year marks the end of NASA’s shuttle program, and tied to the retirement of the fleet of three remaining ‘flying bricks’ are a trio of IMAX documentaries: Hubble 3D and Space Station 3D (both Warner Home Video), Solarmax from Sling Shot Entertainment, plus the 2000 non-IMAX Discovery Channel doc Inside the Space Station (Artisan)…
Cancon I: A Ticket to the Heavenly Mother Lode
In the first of an ongoing series on Cancon (Canadian content) films made during the tax shelter years, we start with Charlton Heston’s underrated directorial venture Mother Lode (Warner Home Video), which isn’t a Canadian film per se, but is loaded with Cancon talent and was filmed in B.C. Because the film co-starred Nick Mancuso, I’ve added a review of a true Cancon film, the equally underrated drama Ticket to Heaven (Echo Bridge), but check out the Editor’s Blog prior to the reviews…
Hot & Bothered: The Chase, by Arthur Penn and Sam Spiegel
Editor’s Blog on the recent screening of producer Sam Spiegel’s The Chase (1966), as part of their retrospective on director Arthur Penn, plus a review of the film and John Barry’s score…
Film: Jud Suss (1940)
Return to: Home / Blu-ray, DVD, Film Reviews / J to L . Film: Propaganda/ DVD Transfer: n/a/ DVD Extras: n/a Label: n/a/ Region: n/a / Released: n/a Genre: Historical Drama / Nazi Propaganda / Third Reich Synopsis: A Jewish financier gets more than he bargained for when he infiltrates and influences the Duke of Wurtenburg in 18th […]
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