Greetings! Savant's new reviews today are
Hello from Gower street -- not a lot to report tonight. Saw two new films last week. HOLLYWOODLAND was somewhat downbeat but well made and thoughtful. It captured perfectly the thrill of George Reeves in the ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN TV show -- specifically visualizing the image in Savant's review of kids dropping everything to run to the TV set when they heard the show's distinctive main theme. A lot less interesting, in fact a gnawing bore, was FLYBOYS, an absolutely brainless pile of flying clichés held together by a lot of CGI airplanes that continually tell us that it's all fake -- impossible angles, ridiculously optimized action. No fun at all. Enjoy the all-Universal monster-thon reviews! Glenn Erickson
Posted by DVD Savant at September 23, 2006 02:31 PM