Highly Recommended Reviewed by Glenn Erickson DVD releases regularly include non-studio experimental and underground pictures, the quality of which ranges from very good to, frankly, why-are-we-watching this? Sorting through them all becomes worthwhile when something truly exceptional is released. A ...

Recommended THE SHOW: I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say that Superman is one of the most iconic characters of all time. Since his first appearance in Action Comics in 1938, stories of the Kryptonian have been presented in a variety of media including radio serials, TV shows, films and of course ...

Highly Recommended THE MOVIES: Ask the average moviegoer with at least a passing knowledge of film history to name some Hitchcock films, and they're more than likely to call up something from his late Universal period: Rear Window, Vertigo, Psycho, The Birds. These were the years in which the master ...

Highly Recommended Briefly, for those that don't know, Mystery Science Theater 3000 was a show about a ordinary Joe, or Joel, and his two wise-cracking robots. The trio are stuck in space by a mad scientist, Dr. Clayton Forrester, where they are forced to watch bad movies. It began in 1988 on cable ...

Skip It The Movie: Attack Girls' Swim Team vs. the Undead sounds like it is a zany, off kilter Japanese zombie movie. Hiding under this inviting exterior, though, is a soft core porn film with a limp zombie framework thrown up around it. The film centers around Aki (Sasa Handa), new girl at a Japanese ...

Highly Recommended The Show: In all honesty, Clannad was a treat that I totally wasn't expecting. Prior to its appearance in America I heard good things about the series, but didn't really jump at the chance to check it out upon release here. Man, do I wish I did! This show turned out to be a real charmer ...

Highly Recommended A fascinating combination of "Survivor" and a History Channel documentary (or, alternately, a really hot - literally - version of "The Alaska Experiment"), "Expedition: Africa" is a fascinating series from producer Mark Burnett (of "Survivor") fame. The series is a grand experiment, ...

Recommended The Show: For those of us who were mere rugrats back when Saturday morning TV was as sacred as a Barbie Townhouse or a Mike Schmidt rookie card, the notion of reliving that experience via DVD is damned near irresistible. Alas, nostalgia-addled fare like Saturday Morning Cartoons 1970s, Volume ...

Rent It THE FILM With two direct and developed lead performances from Michael Caine and young Bill Milner, it seems unfair to watch their efforts wasted on an uneven, unsatisfying picture like the tear-jerker "Is Anybody There?" It's a simple case of acting trumping splintered storytelling, with most, ...

Rent It As a character, Tony Stark/Iron Man has always been a little too much for me to swallow. Fine, Superman's from another planet and has a catch-all array of superpowers. Batman is "just a man," but a very wealthy one with a memorable dark streak. But Tony Stark? Well, he's basically Howard Hughes ...