Happy father's day from sunny Hollywood.
Savant's been fending off more flame Email than usual. When I get notes like the one flatly stating that Noam Chomsky is a crackpot fraud and I am his stooge, I just have to answer, 'Thank you for your opinion', and call it a day. However, more often than not, a reasonable response will at least convince the writer that Savant's not an irredeemable creep, even if he still thinks I write like one. And that's how I like to keep things .. no firebombs or dead cats on my doorstep, thankyouverymuch. Actually, some of my harshest critics have become the best penpals, and I welcome their criticism to make me question my personal view of things.
On to today's reviews. Columbia Tristar gets a base hit with their fun disc of Ray Harryhausen's monster show 20 Million Miles to Earth. It's the technically wonderful and dramatically almost-wonderful tale of a dangerous Venusian creature in Italy that's poked, stabbed, shocked with electricity and then hunted down like, like, a dangerous Venusian creature. It's Ray's last b&w film and has some of his most accomplished animation.
Paramount's Western Will Penny is actually a superior character study, that mixes its romance with some mad menace via a crazed Donald Pleasance. Charlton Heston and Joan Hackett star in this celebrated sleeper.
DVD Savant continues to watch, and write, and try to find discs you'll enjoy. Have a great Sunday and see you soon! GE
Posted by DVD Savant at June 16, 2002 01:55 PM