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Maybe we’ve seen too many movies. Maybe that’s why so many movies seem to be familiar before we’ve even seen them - why the filmmakers seem to be conducting a drill rather than trying something new. “Toy Soldiers,” a film with earnest performances and professional production values, is constructed out of characters, situations and gimmicks that will be instantly recognized by the weary viewer. There is nothing new here. The movie opens with two sequences that inform us exactly what we can expect. One shows a Central American desperado killing hostages in a desperate attempt to win th...

 E-Mail IMAGE: UT Jackson School of Geosciences Professor Ian Dalziel, who won the Penrose Medal, at South Georgia island in the far south Atlantic Ocean view more  Credit: Ian Dalziel Ian W.D. Dalziel, a professor in the Jackson School of Geosciences at The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded the Geological Society of America's Penrose Medal for pioneering discoveries about Earth's ancient geography and its past supercontinents. Established in 1927, the Penrose Medal is widely considered to be geology's most prestigious career award. In a letter, GSA Past-President Doug...

Disc Type: BD50 (dual layer) Region: A MSRP: $59.99 The Production: 3.5/5 Tremors did absolutely terribly in theaters but was given a second shot at success by the early video rental market. It found its fans and they have demanded 6 sequels, a short lived TV show and several cancelled video game adaptations. It’s spawned a small cottage industry of fan conventions, tchotchkes, and apparel. It’s a fun and perfectly paced movie with well defined and motivated characters, monsters whose movements underground are indicated by clever earth shaking effects, shocking and funny death scenes by b...

The Frankenstein-esque tale of a kind-hearted simpleton inadvertently transformed into a megalomaniacal genius through the means of virtual reality, glorified B-movie The Lawnmower Man became a modest hit upon its 1992 release. Still, few were clamoring for a sequel. Least of all Stephen King, who was so horrified at how many liberties the original took with his same-named short story that he took studio New Line Cinema to court. Yet four years later, the film world's second most malevolent gardener returned for another helping of technobabble, mystifying plans for global domination, and CGI...

Tremors: Limited Edition (4K UHD Review) Format: Blu-ray Disc Studio(s)Universal Pictures (Arrow Video) Film/Program Grade: A+ Review Tremors is thought of today as a franchise, but when the first film was released in 1990, one would not have believed that its meager box office take would spawn six sequels and a TV series. But after becoming a bigger hit on cable and home video, this comedy/horror/monster movie hybrid achieved a lucrative cult status. The idea of Short Circuit screenwriters Brent Maddock and S.S. Wilson, Tremors eventually got before the cameras with Ron Underwood ( City S...