The complete Aeon Flux collection has finally arrived on DVD in all it’s restored, remastered 5.1 glory.  All I can say is; it’s about bloody time!  For years the only Aeon Flux we had on DVD were a few short episodes on an MTV compilation called Liquid Shorts.  Liquid Shorts was a hand picked best-of collection of ...

This is an expensive month for DVD purchases for a Sci-Fi comics movie geek and a month of heavy viewing in front of my HT system.  I have given lengthy reviews to the AVforums on two films, an Australian spoof horror called Undead and The Interpreter staring Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn.  This is also the month that Electra’s ...

It’s Halloween season again, the perfect time for some frightful horror movies.    I viewed and reviewed for another website the DVD release of Undead which came out last Tuesday and will be sitting on the shelves of the local video rental super-markets this weekend.  It’s actually a bit funny to me because people ...

Frank Miller’s Sin City DVD is finally here.  I can’t say any more about the movie itself than I already have.  It’s really three stories involving typical film noir subject matter including revenge and redemption.  This is one of those special films that includes an all star cast of some well established ...

Oliver Stone’s Alexander is a movie, like the man Oliver Stone himself, that polarizes opinions.  It’s difficult to talk about Stone without politics being dragged into it.  The story of Alexander has often been a forum for one’s ideology.  Historian and writer John Keegan has this to say about the politicization ...

This week’s notable DVD release is Constantine staring Keanu Reeves.  It’s difficult to describe exactly what Constantine is about and what the character John Constantine played by Keanu Reeves, really is.  As a sort of occultist super-hero figure his strength does not lie in his physical body but in his gift/curse of being ...

The most important DVD to come out this week was Million Dollar Baby, the film that won the Oscars for 2004…all of them.  I hadn’t seen the movie until the DVD this week but I didn’t have any critical plot points spoiled for me, although I thought I had.  I heard that some religious and politically right leaning people ...

When even a competent film director gets to make a movie based on personal experiences of historic events a great film is often the result.  Oliver Stone made Platoon based on his own experience ‘coming of age’ in the hell of Vietnam where he served as a LRRP.  Of all the Stone films, love ‘em or hate ‘em Platoon ...

The story behind Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac is almost as interesting as the music found on this new DVD-Audio release by Silverline Records.  It’s a famous idiom that what Americans invent the British perfect.  At least that’s what the Brits might say, Americans might use other terms.  But when it comes to Blues ...

DVDs this week include the academy award nominated Hotel Rwanda. Hotel Rwanda is not a movie about the genocidal massacres in Rwanda in 1994, it's about the heroism of an ordinary man in a time of crisis.  This is a film that reminds us that heroes are people who believe they're really just hotel managers, fathers or cooks and their heroism ...