DVD Review: 'El Cid' Box Set

El Cid
Unrated 2-Disc Box Set
Directed by Anthony Mann
Starring Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren
Available Jan. 29, 2008

The sixties were a funny time… You know, for EVEN MORE than the obvious reasons. It was the decade that the studio system in Hollywood finally fell to corporate ownership. The debate rages to this day on whether or not this was a development for the better.

As Martin Scorsese notes in his liner-note introduction for today's film, Anthony Mann's El Cid "is a picture that marks the passing of an era in American moviemaking." Quite possibly the last huge epic before corporations. Before Kubrick. Before Hippies. Before Altman...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom!

Movie Review: The Omega Man

WEEK OF GEEK SERIES: I AM LEGEND: PART IV

The Omega Man (1971)
Directed by Boris Sagal
Written by John William Corrington and Joyce H. Corrington
Adapted from the novel I Am Legend
Starring Charlton Heston, Anthony Zerbe, Rosalind Cash, Paul Koslo, Eric Laneuville, Lincoln Kilpatrick

Two years after germ warfare exterminates the human population, Robert Neville believes he is the last human on Earth. But the germs have created an entire new race of mutants out of those that were infected but did not die. These creatures, who have taken on the properties of albinos and are extremely light sensitive, are forced to live in total darkness. By night, Robert fortifies himself in his home as he attempts to survive the mutants' daily assaults. But by day, Robert becomes the hunter, and speeds through the barren streets of Los Angeles looking for their den...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom!