Savant's new reviews today are
Some nice emails this week. I got more than one letter letting me know that Marc Singer of The Beastmaster isn't the surfer-dude slacker I implied in my review; he's an accomplished stage actor and is well-known for good performances in Shakespeare. I stand corrected ... but on the evidence of The Beastmaster, can I be blamed?
Several readers pointed me to an NTSC special edition disc of the original East-German version of First Spaceship on Venus, at an exhorbitant price. This has been a Savant wanna-have for ages, ever since seeing a PAL disc of the same original version, but without English subtitles. A friend who contacted DEFA by E-mail was told that there will be a more affordable domestic special edition this fall; I was asked not to mention the specific company yet. My original rewritten and thoroughly confusing review of First Spaceship on Venus is here.
It looks like I'll be going to the 9:30 Monday screening of Mothra at the New Beverly in Los Angeles; On Sunday night they're going to be giving out some strange awards in this town and everybody seems to want to watch that on television. So if anybody wants to say hi, or if you want to send your assassins, I'll be wearing my red bowling tennies and eating a tub of forbidden non-diet popcorn. The New Beverly has a new stereo sound system I haven't heard yet, and it's possible Mothra will be in stereo ... thanks, Glenn "just call me Bulldog" Erickson
Posted by DVD Savant at February 26, 2005 05:01 PM