Rent It The Movie: Growing up in a household where my father enjoyed more than several films and miniseries of the Civil War era, I feel somewhat vaccinated to films of the period and even will occasionally watch Gods and Generals or Gettysburg when they appear on television. In addition, for whatever reason when I heard the person responsible for those movies did a made for television third …
Recommended As frantic and unpredictable as its central character, Richard Donner’s Conspiracy Theory (1997) takes viewers on a wild ride from start to finish. Our man under the microscope is Jerry Fletcher (Mel Gibson), a deeply troubled cab driver who perpetually peeks behind the curtain and believes in shady cover-ups, shadow government, and other suppressions of the truth. When he’s not …
Hollywood worships at the altar of the box office, and the success this year of religious themed-movies has led to a sort of come-to-Jesus moment for studios and reporters alike — as well as a rush by big name conservatives such as Glenn Beck and Rick Santorum to get in on the success. Not every movie is a huge seller, but the sheer volume available on their site, as well as places like …
Rent It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. The opening minutes of The Bridges of Madison County , in which two adult siblings react to the reading of their mother’s will, are terrible.
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Recommended Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the DVD portion of Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron . The Movie: Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron is a movie about a headstrong horse who’ll never, ever be tamed – he’s “come into this world, wild and free,” galloping through the American West “wild and untamed” – and if anyone tries to reign him in, he’s “never gonna give in” (Bryan …
Skip It Less than a year ago, Acorn collected the first two “Jack Irish” telemovies into a Blu-Ray set. The films, based on the books by author Peter Temple, followed Irish (Guy Pearce) as he slowly shifts from being a fancy criminal attorney to being a private investigator, while recovering from the murder of his wife, Isabel.
Highly Recommended The Movie: Written and directed by Robert Hiltzik, 1983’s Sleepaway Camp could have very easily been lost in the crowd of eighties slasher films had it not been for the film’s infamous shock ending, one that’s gone down in history, and rightly so. We won’t spoil it here but this is really one of those movies where you’re not going to see it coming and a picture which proves …
Recommended [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] “I live my life a quarter-mile at a time.” “That is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.” Turns out that Neal H. Moritz really liked raking in millions and … Read the entire review