Ed Wood (DVD)

Ed Wood is a sentimental biopic to one of the strangest characters in the movie business Edward D Wood Jr. This is a comedy drama directed by Tim Burton that chronicles the life of the filmmaker highlighting his most famous (infamous films) and his relationship with 1930?s horror film star Bela Lugosi. THE STORY On the face of it the script to this movie is unbelievable. A transvestite film director gathers together a bizarre group of misfits including a drug addict who thinks he's Dracula, ex-wrestler, a woman with a 17inch waist who looks like a vampire and a TV visionary in order to make to make movies about alien invasions and sex changes! One ...  Read the complete review

Ed Wood, for all who do not know who he is, was a man that won unusual acolade for making the 'worse movies in showbiz'. The film directed by Tom Burton and written by Scott Alexander and Karaszeski, based on Rudolph Grey's 'Nightmare of Ecstasy'. This is a beautiful, black and white, left field film about a man that had a lot of drive and ambition in making films but as to wether he had any real talent, remains to be seen and is subject to personal opinion. He contributed to the B Movie cult with films such as 'Glen or Glenda', 'Bride of the atom' and 'Plan 9 from Outer Space'. The film follows Ed Wood (Johnny Depp) through a string ...  Read the complete review

In 1953, Wood met his idol Bela Lugosi, a Hungarian immigrant and the celebrated star of universal's 1930 version of Dracula but in the two decades that had passed since the release of the classic horror tale, Lugosi had slipped into virtual obscurity, had become addicted to morphine and was by the time Wood found him, trying out coffins in an undertakers. Wood however was not discouraged and vowed to revitalise Lugosi's career by casting him in his movies and subsequently landed him with roles in Glen or Glenda, Woods autobiographical tale of a transvestite, played by Wood himself under the name of Daniel Davis, and Bride of the Monster. Even the small amount of footage ...  Read the complete review

In the world of movies, a few make it to the very pinnacle and occasionally get recognised though award ceremonies. The vast majority of movies operate in the safety of the middle ground but some turn out to be not very good at all or just plain bad. And then there are some that are so bad that they are good or ultimately simply unwatchable. “ Ed Wood” tells the story of one of the worst directors of all time. Renowned for his shlock b-movies in the 50’s and 60’s, Edward D Wood Junior made some dreadful films. In that perverse turn of fate that happens from time to time, his work turned him into a cult icon that still permeates recent movie history today and in this 1994 ...  Read the complete review

I generally don’t like Tim Burton very much. His movies contain impressive visuals, but very little else. The fact that he’s regarded as some kind of crazy maverick visionary merely illustrates the appalling state of modern Hollywood, and the intellectual bankruptcy of the critics who champion him (and Quentin Tarantino, Terry Gilliam, the Wachowsky siblings and every other filmmaker who elevates style over substance to the same extent). But after making two unwatchable Batman films, Burton suddenly, out of nowhere, made this, one of the most endearing movies of the 1990s, and a film I love unreservedly. Then he went back to making crap (though Mars Attacks was kind of ...  Read the complete review