Around the festive season, it's nice to crank out the holiday classics, from family-friendly fare such as the Muppet's Christmas Carol, to action classics like the Die Hard films, and then even even more subversive horror/fantasy fare like the Gremlins films. The Gremlins collection, containing the 1984 film and its 1990 sequel, is very cheap now, and well worth getting! The first film revolves around Billy Peltzer, a young man who is bought a Mogwai by his father, a cute, furry little creature that looks like a Furby (which was actually designed after the Mogwai). There are three rules: don't get them wet, don't feed them after midnight and don't let them see ...  Read the complete review

I've already reviewed Gremlins elsewhere so here I'd like to concentrate my attention on its sequel, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, and the accompanying special features in this particular 2-disc set. **Spoiler Warning** 1990, it seems, was the year of the much-maligned but obligatory sequel to a major 80's hit film. Robocop 2, Die Hard 2, Predator 2, and Gremlins 2. All good films in their own right, but ones that in the eyes of many, just fall short of the standards set by their predecessors. Gremlins 2 is actually a very original concept for a sequel - particularly for what was originally intended as merely a cash-in movie. The whole ...  Read the complete review