Recommended Shortly after the beginning of World War II, a shipyard is bombed. Among the casualties: the USS Sea Tiger, a brand-new submarine that had yet to make it out of the dock.
A look at some DVDs scheduled to be released in the weeks ahead.
Recommended The Movie: Directed by Walter Hill who co-wrote with David Giler and Michael Kane, 1981's Southern Comfort takes place in Louisiana in 1973. Here, nine National Guardsmen are on a weekend training mission in the backwoods swamps.
Recommended The Movie: The latest film from Juno Mak (probably best known for his work on 2010's Revenge: A Love Story ) and his directorial debut begins when a man named Chin (Chin Siu Ho) moves into a tenement style apartment building. He shuffles into his new apartment with a few relics from his past: costumes, in need of repair, from the days when he was a successful actor. These days, Chin …
DVD Talk Collector Series A fascinating work, Georges Franju's Judex (1963) is at once unique while heavily influenced by both silent and contemporary films alike, and it probably helped spur the increased production less arty but likewise stylized movies in its wake. A crime thriller with science fiction and fantasy trappings, it remakes the famous 1916 French serial with less interest in the …
Highly Recommended Legend of Korra Book 2 Blu-ray Review One of the greatest series airing on televisionright now(regardless of genre or form) is The Legend of Korra . Korra is thefollow-up series to Avatar: The Last Airbender and a creativeworld hasbeen meticulously brought to life from the same talented creators,Michael DanteDiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, and the rest of the production …
Rent It THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. Though it came out in 2001, Kissing Jessica Stein seems to most strongly fit into the post- Swingers 1990s, when artists and performers outside of the Hollywood scene stopped waiting for someone to create a project that fit their particular quirks and …
Bryan Baron (with a little input from Graham Marsden) takes an even closer look at the new barbel DVD by Guy Robb and Stuart Morgan.
AN argument over borrowed DVDs led a teenager to make racist threats that he would rape a man and stab his child, a court has heard.