Rent It The Movie: The throwback action flick Homefront is at its finest when Jason Statham is pummeling bad guys with his fists. Unfortunately, that only amounts to about 7 minutes out of the movie’s total 100.
Maddy Colburn, an elementary student at Allegany-Limestone Elementary School, sits atop a box filled with 310 DVDs donated locally for pediatric hospitals around the country. Behind Maddy are (from left) her mother, Kristin Colburn; Annette Donavon, mamanger of the St
Highly Recommended The Movie: After a seven year break from filmmaking following the 1981 release of Polyester , Baltimore’s John Waters returned to directing films and made what would be his first shot at ‘the mainstream.’ This picture, 1988’s Hairspray , would also be the last film he’d make for New Line for a decade. The film would also be a historic moment in his career as it would make the …
Recommended The Film: It’s common for those who aren’t politicians to want to live in the shoes of decision makers for a brief period, just so they might be able to put their perspective and values in motion to fix some of the problems created by questionable, self-focused bureaucracy.
Rent It The Movie: Friends of mine had occasionally praised the merits of Boiler Room long before The Wolf of Wall Street had become a cinematic reality. While the films share similar backdrops, their story appears to be told at two different levels, one as the ground level of a broker, the other an owner, but both in stock brokerage firms
Recommended The Grandmaster Blu-ray Review TheGrandmaster isthe latest film from one ofHong Kong’s most acclaimed filmmakers, Wong Kar Wai ( ChungkingExpress , 2046 , My Blueberry Nights ). It is a new telling of the story of IpMan, arenowned martial artist who is well known for having trained thelegendaryBruce Lee
Of all of the recent Marvel Comics based films Thor: The Dark World is the one that is the least…uhh…comic bookish. In fact the film is as much Science Fantasy as anything else. Much of the action takes place off Earth and doesn’t involve a threat to Earth as much as it does to the entire universe…
Rent It Dr. Samuel Fry (Michael Maloney) has reached an impasse in his treatment of Veronica Bloom (Emmanuelle Vaugier). She’s a former psychotic whose failure to progress without the heavy use of drugs prompts Dr
Rent It Okay, Dead Kids is a head-on collision of an early ’80s slasher with a retro mad scientist flick. You’ve got high schoolers signing up to become emotionless, murderous automotons in exchange for a crisp [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] $100 check, pl… Read the entire review
A look at some DVDs scheduled to be released in the weeks ahead.