Recommended Please Note: The screen shots accompanying this review come from the DVD portion of White Christmas: Diamond Anniversary Edition. The Movie: With Bing Crosby crooning Irving Berlin songs in proto-psychedelic Technicolor, White Christmas is the cinematic equivalent of a holiday fruitcake stuffed with nuts and marischino cherries dyed in festive red and green
Rent It Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. The filmmakers behind this 1988 remake of The Blob understand how ridiculous a giant gelatinous killer really is. Chuck Russell directs from a script co-written by Frank Darabont, and The Blob embraces its B-movie mentality like a long-lost lover returned
Skip It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. The 1988 Dutch/French thriller The Vanishing is intense and devastating; a harrowing portrait of evil. Director George Sluizer remade the film for American audiences in 1993, but this retelling is sanitized, overacted and dull
Highly Recommended Content: With the combination of the Director of the fim, Hiroyuki Okiura, whom has worked on powerhouses such as Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade, Akira, Cowboy Bebop: The Movie, and The Evangelion and Ghost in the Shell franchises, and the animation/production studio behind Attack on Titan, Eden of the East, FLCL, every Ghost in the Shell anime, and Psycho-Pass , Letter to Momo …
Recommended The Movie: Frontera is an issue-based ensemble melodrama that manages to extract enough emotion to get its points through while staying fairly levelheaded. It's not a masterpiece by any means and suffers from some of the technical and narrative issues that usually plague a first time feature director, but it's also nowhere near as preachy and pretentious as similar efforts like Babel …
Recommended The Series: HBO's vampire fantasy/soap opera series True Blood ran seven seasons from 2008 until just this year, 2014.
DVD Talk Collector Series NOTE: The images featured here were taken from promotional materials and do not reflect the quality of the Blu-ray under review. The Movie: Like his debut film Boy Meets Girl , writer-director Leos Carax's second feature, 1986's Mauvais Sang (the literal translation is “Bad Blood,” although the UK title was The Night Is Young ), focuses on a lovesick young man named …
Skip It The Movie: Shock Waves is one of those 70s cheap genre exploitation flicks where the artwork promoting it is much better than the movie itself. It takes a killer premise, Nazi zombies bred to survive underwater come back decades after World War II to wreak havoc, and destroys it with a dull and lifeless execution, depthless characters, horrid acting and worst of all for such a film …
Recommended The Movie: Directed by filmmaker Ren Sampaio and adapted from a popular song entitled Faroeste Caboclo by Brazilian musician Renato Russo, Brazilian Western isn't really so much a western as it is a modern crime drama. It is at least set in Brazil, however, so the title isn't completely misleading! The story is set in the 1980s and follows a young man named Jo o de Santo Cristo (Fabr …