Author Archive for Mike Young
On DVD: Jimi Hendrix: The Guitar Hero
Narrated By: Slash
Directed By: Jon Brewer
Superlatives are overused; words like legend, greatest, master, innovator commonly get attached to average things. Jimi Hendrix however is the real deal, he is all of these things and more, unfortunately this documentary of Hendrix is quite average. For a student or raving fan of Hendrix there is a ton [...]
On DVD/Blu-Ray: City Island
Starring: Andy Garci, Julianna Margulies, Steven Strait, Dominik Garcia-Lorido, Ezra Miller, Emily Mortimer, Alan Arkin
Directed By: Raymond De Felitta
This is a movie about secrets. How secrets are like a balloon, each little supporting lie is just one more breath into the balloon, and how eventually every balloon goes boom and once that happens everybody [...]
On DVD: The Doctor, The Tornado and the Kentucky Kid
If you are a fan of racing, this film is a must see. Docurama recently released The Doctor, the Tornado and the Kentucky Kid on DVD.
On DVD: The Roger Corman Collection: Forbidden World
Directed by: Allan Holzman
Starring: Jesse Vint, Dawn Dunlap, June Chadwick, Linden Chiles, Fox Harris, Raymond Oliver, Scott Paulin, Michael Bowen, Don Olivera
Here we have another of Roger Corman’s “classic” films, this time in the science fiction genre. Done right his films are guilty pleasures and done wrong these film can be torturous.
On DVD: Roger Corman’s Cult Classics: Galaxy of Terror
Directed by: Bruce D. Clark
Starring: Erin Moran, Edward Albert, Sid Haig, Ray Walston, Robert Englund, Taffee O’Connell, Zalman King, Grace Zabriskie
So you’re the King of the B’s. You’ve been busy carving out a niche making genre and exploitation movies but you’ve been just a little too successful. Hollywood has noticed. Now the big studios are [...]
On DVD: Death Race 2000
Starring: David Carradine, Sylvester Stallone, Simone Griffeth, Mary Woronov, Roberta Collins
Directed by: Paul Bartel
Death Race 2000 is a product of Roger Corman, King of the B-Movies, and it may be his crown jewel. Made for $300,000 in 1974, it shows; hokey backdrops, obviously undercranked car chase scenes, plot holes you can drive a kit car [...]
On TV: New Series: Top Shot
Starring Colby Donaldson
Produced by Pilgrim Films & Television for History Channel
How do you screw up a show about guns, bullets and expert marksmen? I would have thought the answer would be, “you can’t”. I mean how could a show that promises to bring sixteen world class marksmen together and have them compete against each other [...]
On DVD: Ghost Hunters International Season One: Part One
Starring: Robb Demarest, Donna LaCroix, Brian Harnois, Barry Fitzgerald, Andy Andrews, Shannon Sylvia
Produced by: Syfy
There is an episode of Newhart that has all of the townspeople getting spooked on a Halloween night. Half the town ends up in Dick’s, Bob Newhart’s, Inn complaining about strange truck like sounds coming from near the highway and strange [...]
On Blu-Ray: Disgrace
Directed by: Steve Jacobs
Starring: John Malkovich, Jessica Haines, Eric Ebouaney
There is a lot going on in this movie and like all good art different people are going to see different things. I saw a study of predertors and prey, of dominance and submission, a primer in victimization and how it can become a life style.
On DVD: Slammim’ Salmon
Directed by: Kevin Heffernan
Starring: Michael Clarke Duncan, Jay Chandrasekar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, Erik Stolhanske, Cobie Smulders, April Bowlby
Well the Broken Lizard guys are back. This time with Michael Clark Duncan, Cobie Smulders and a slew of cameos including Sendhil Ramamurthy, Lance Henrickson and Morgan Fairchild. This time around they’re not highway patrolman [...]
