Tag: 5 Star Video

A Cockroach in Miami’s Midst Scarface is both reactionary and alarmist. Oliver Stone’s screenplay slams the Carter administrations chaotic immigration policy, induces immigrant fears, this while blaming communism’s stranglehold …

Beyond Wonderful The Wizard of Oz released six days before Germany invaded Poland – a last reprieve of fantasy escapism before conflict. It’s appropriate too. Wizard of Oz is …

Drug Busters Classic San Francisco plays host to The Lineup, a story of the international drug trade roping in unknowing tourists. It’s sightly, loaded with landmarks, off-setting the harsh …

Science Saves Us All While Ultra Q features a handful of truly surreal episodes – especially one where a kid’s pet turtle mutates and exits reality – it’s a …

Ever Talk to a Corpse? David isn’t really a werewolf. It seems like it – after all, he spends a night in agonizing pain, growing out limbs, fangs, and …

Kung Fu Gizmo Action Remember Stripe, leader of the naughty monsters from Gremlins? The producers behind director Andrew Lau’s Kung Fu Monster certainly seem to remember the movie, blatantly …

Hole in the Desert The final moments of Casino show old Vegas being torn down. Implosions send once grand buildings to rubble. Sam Rothenstein (Robert De Niro) opines about …

Finger on Fast-Forward The best part of The Prey involves the discussion of a cucumber sandwich and subsequent eating of said sandwich. That’s by default. The Prey doesn’t hold …

Son of the Son of Shaft If possible, look past the drug investigation plot of Shaft. It’s a menagerie of cliches, routine, and derivative non-surprises. Underneath that though comes …

Virgin Islands Showdown Dinosaurus came out in 1960, fueled by an energetic optimism. World War II was far enough in the past and economic recovery stable. Forgive this Saturday …

Union Faults Before Glory’s climactic charge on a Confederate fort, star Denzel Washington speaks openly to his white superior, played by Matthew Broderick. The discussion turns to what each …

Still Unequaled The only thing to hold against The General’s Civil War depiction is the South triumphantly, jubilantly winning in the end. That’s a shame. To note, The General …