Reviews

Over the last few years, we’ve grown accustomed to movies from Shaw Brothers being martial arts period pieces being released on Blu-ray. There are other expectations from the legendary Hong Kong studio such as a majority of the movie being shot inside the studio including the exteriors. Naturally we assume

As a parent, the Tooth Fairy seemed to be the nicest of all the “creatures” that would sneak in the house after dark and visit the kid. There was always a fear of Santa saying the kid was naughty. It was impossible to explain why the Easter Bunny has so

As a kid growing up in the ’70s, giant monster movies from Japan on TV were destination television. Whether it be Godzilla or Gamera, the dial was all mine when they were listed in the TV Guide. My parents were frustrated that the only TV in the house had been

As a parent of a kid who was addicted to Sesame Street, I can confirm that Elmo likes to giggle. The little fuzzy red monster is ready to cut up if something tickles him. I once met Elmo at the Full Frame Documentary Films festival and we shared a giggle

My knowledge of Czechoslovakian film is rather slim since for the most part the local arthouses weren’t running Soviet Bloc movies on their big screens in the ’80s. Even the foreign film sections of video stores only represented the country with the early movies of Milos Foreman (One Flew Over