Highly Recommended THE FILM: Sylvester Stallone admits that he didn’t quite nail the tone of The Expendables . That love letter to 1980s action flicks and the stars that kicked ass in them felt a bit slipshod despite some enthusiastic directing by Stallone and eager help from recent star Jason Statham. Stallone hands the directing reigns over to Simon West this go-round, but is still heavily …
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Recommended THE FILM: The following should be enough to gauge your interest in seeing Excision : AnnaLynne McCord fantasizes about having sex with corpses; former adult film star Traci Lords displays surprising acting chops as her uptight mother; and John Waters, the king of trash cinema, shows up as a priest.
Rent It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu – ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Oliver Stone is an emotive, visual filmmaker known to overindulge in pulpy fiction to mixed results. Stone’s best films, like Platoon and Wall Street , are brash and probing, while his duds, like Alexander , are bloated and overwrought.
DVD Talk Collector Series THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from a prior standard-definition DVD release, not the Blu-ray edition under review. By 1950, the tirelessly skeptical and sardonic Billy Wilder was already much more than qualified to make a picture about Hollywood; over the preceding decade, the Austrian-born director (who had fled Europe for Hollywood in the wake …
Highly Recommended In your faaaace ! Cartoon Network and Warner Bros. piss off more goofs who can’t just enjoy a simple DVD full of toons with the release of Regular Show: The Best DVD in the World* (*at this moment in time) , a single-disc, 16-episode collection of Cartoon Network ‘s hit Monday night show (and my current favorite toon on television). Created by J
Recommended The Movie: Arthur Christmas is a CG animated film from Aardman (the British studio best known here for “Wallace and Gromit”) and Sony Pictures Animation. Like Disney’s Santa Clause movies, it attempts to explain how Santa Claus does his job in the modern world
Rent It [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] “You know how it is when you eat Chinese! Half an hour later, you’re hungry again!” Yeah, I know, and that Thursday-night-on-TBS sense of humor is pretty much wh…
Highly Recommended THE FILMS: Bringing many of Hitchcock’s films to Blu-ray for the first time, Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection offers, in one box, a veritable galaxy of brilliant work by the man who, when all is said and done, can creditably be considered the greatest movie director ever, at least in the English-speaking world. In this galaxy there are the Plutos, the curious …
Recommended The Show: This is a 2011 stage performance of Stephen Sondheim’s musical comedy, which had a brief run in movie theaters last year and has now been issued on Blu-Ray disc from Image Entertainment. Company premiered in 1970 on Broadway with a cast album released shortly after. Since then it has had several revivals, including one previous to this production in 2006 which is also …