Highly Recommended THE FILM Please Note: The images used here are stills provided by Music Box Films and are not taken from the current Blu-ray edition under review. It’s always troubling to ponder, the way that the time, place, and culture in which one is born and raised can so easily slot you onto the wrong side of history. How sure can any of us be that we would’ve been in the tiny minority …
Recommended The above is from a trailer for The Manson Family included on this disc and is also quoted on the back cover. Being a DVDTalk reviewer for a relatively short time, this is the first time I have been faced with the unique challenge of covering a new release of a title that previously received praise worthy enough of being quoted on it.
Skip It In 10 Words or Less An all-star sketch comedy mess Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Sketch movies, Emma Stone Likes: Many of this film’s stars Dislikes: Potty humor Hates: Lazy filmmaking The Movie You know that thing where when a kid does something wrong, and the parent says “I’m not mad. I’m just disappointed”
It is impossible, this time of year, not to assume that all Americans are idiots, throwing billions of dollars at movie studios for producing terrible movies meant to numb us into becoming drooling popcorn-digesters.
Six out of eight new movies received at least three stars.
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DVD Talk Collector Series THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. After unsuccessfully pitching The Producers to several studios and directors, Mel Brooks decided to direct the project – then titled Springtime for Hitler – himself
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Skip It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Julianne Moore makes everything better, but what the hell is she doing in 6 Souls , a direct-to-video-quality horror flick filmed way back in 2010 but only seeing the light of day now? Previously known as Shelter and directed by M ns M rlind and Bj rn Stein, 6 Souls is a sloppy mix of hocus-pocus magic and …
Now that we’re in the summer, most of the movies from spring are hitting home video. One of the year’s biggest flops joins one of the year’s best movies on home video this week, along with some Criterion releases, and some new television.