Greetings! Savant's new reviews today are
Fox
Vengeance is Mine
Criterion
and
The Living Coffin
Casanegra
Hello again. I've reviewed the Sam Fuller guilty pleasure Hell and High Water, just in time for Criterion to announce that its Eclipse line will present a box called The First Films of Samuel Fuller on August 14: I Shot Jesse James, The Baron of Arizona, and The Steel Helmet. 
I had to review Hell and High Water from a borrowed disc because this week's library titles from Sony, Fox, MGM, Universal and even Warners haven't yet materialized. So the next week or so may be rather lean for reviews, and that's no fun. I hope that this isn't a trend, or DVD Savant will be a very unhappy website.
Sony has dozens of desired genre titles, fantastic and not, that they aren't in any hurry to release. They're instead reissuing Ray Harryhausen's 20 Million Miles to Earth ... colorized. Even being generous, that seems a mistake -- the Venusian Ymir now looks a bit like a green plastic toy. Harryhausen has supervised the colorization personally, as he did with She, and is sidestepping anti-revisionist arguments (colorization has been something of a bad joke for quite a while, even when it's done carefully) with the statement that he always wanted the movie to be in color. To quote The Long Goodbye, that's okay by me. See you afer The Long Weekend, Glenn Erickson
Posted by DVD Savant at May 24, 2007 09:26 PM