Like modern action movies that keep adding more CGI and bigger explosions, horror movies these days try to entertain their jaded audiences with increasingly elaborate and gruesome effects. On Halloween, however, some of us are just looking for a good scare and an entertaining thriller of a story.
Jeff Glor talks to Brian Kellow about “Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark.” Kellow reveals some of Kael’s least favorite films.
Weirdly, there are no true horror movies opening (though “Marcy Marcy May Marlene” is certainly a thriller — and a fine one — and there’s plenty that’s scary, however unintentionally, in “Anonymous”) this Halloween weekend, and not too many in the coming weeks. (Watch, though, for Almodovar’s “The Skin I LIve In” coming soon — very, very creepy.) But the next six months bring all kinds of …
Coming out on a two-disc set consisting of a Blu-ray disc and a DVD, the “Fast Five” Blu-ray package features topnotch sound and visuals. This release also supplies owners with a digital download copy, a cool collection of supplemental materials, and a variety of Blu-ray functions for better maneuvering around the disc’s contents.
“Transformers: Dark of the Moon” brings the robot war mayhem from the theaters to the home video format through a Blu-ray-DVD-Digital Copy package.
TICKET TO RIDE A woman who refused to get out of a stranger’s car was arrested overnight. Police were called about an intoxicated woman outside a downtown bar causing problems and refusing to leave the area.
ALTHOUGH billed as a loose remake of the banned 1980 Troma classic of the same name, Saw sequel director Darren Lynn Bousman doesn’t seem to have used much from the original, which was about female backpackers taking revenge on degenerate rednecks following the usual brutality which was commonplace in horror films of this era.
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are promotional stills provided by Kino Lorber and from other sources, and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. Jean-Claude (Gerard Depardieu, young and Byronesquely sexy like he was in Ma tresse ) and Pierrot (Patrick Dewaere) are very, very naughty boys. One would not put it so innocuously (the two are overgrown …
Dazed and Confused returns to Blu-ray just two months after Universal first brought the title to the format, this time as a Criterion release. For a look at my review of that Blu-ray, as well as my take on the film, simply click here. So what’s different?