Recommended Clunky, derivative, and sentimental, but also well-intentioned and visually sumptuous, Enemy Mine (1985) is a real mixed bag of ideas, a fusing of themes from the far-superior Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964) and the equally muddled and obvious Hell in the Pacific (1968). It’s hard to completely dislike this sincere plea for racial and religious tolerance, but except for its …
Rent It THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the bonus DVD included in this combo, not the Blu-ray edition under review. This might get me branded as some kind of sicko, but for a movie that apparently was almost rated NC-17, Chained is rather tame, at least in terms of onscreen gore. Lots of terrible things happen in the movie, but director Jennifer Lynch ( Boxing Helena …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. After leaving a screening of Magic Mike , I was hustling toward the parking lot when I ran into a fairly conservative friend from high school. After we exchanged pleasantries, the inevitable happened: “What did you see?” he said
Rent It The Film: The details of Edgar Allan Poe’s death are vague and bizarre: muttering names of unknown people, wearing clothes that weren’t his, and exhibiting grave distress without the ability to coherently explain why, a lot’s left to interpretation about what led up to the brooding poet’s demise on the streets of Baltimore. So, naturally, in an era where Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy …
Eagle Rock have set a November 13 DVD, Blu-ray, and Digital Video release date for Patti Smith’s Live At Montreux 2005
Recommended Once upon a time in a land far, far away, there was a newborn baby girl named Ella. Usually in these sorts of stories, the fairy godmother doesn’t show up for a few chapters, but Lucinda (Vivica A
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Rent It The Movie: “It turned out to be a wacky, impromptu romp that puzzled a few people at the time but as the years have gone by it now stands as a fond reminder of that period in our lives.” -Paul McCartney, from the accompanying booklet Magical Mystery Tour was a film project produced and directed by The Beatles (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr) themselves, from …
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. Legend has it that audiences in the early 1920s were so convinced by the double-amputee special effect in the Lon Chaney vehicle The Penalty that the studio started attaching a scene of the actor walking down some stairs to the tail end of prints so people …