Skip It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore reunite for their third project together, Blended , an embarrassingly inept romantic comedy that might have ranked at the bottom of Sandler's resume but for that Jack and Jill debacle
Highly Recommended Please Note: The screen shots used here are taken from the DVD portion of Chaplin's Mutual Comedies. The Movies: Like The Beatles in 1964 or Michael Jackson in 1983, Chaplin's Mutual Comedies 1916-17 gives you Charlie Chaplin, Pop Culture Icon at the peak of his popularity.
Rent It The Movie: At only 31 years of age, director Drake Doremus already has four features under his belt. He has proven himself to be a prolific young American filmmaker. His 2011 effort Like Crazy , unseen by me, made a minor splash as a romance that supposedly didn't condescend to its youth demographic and presented young characters who were smarter and more layered than the usual Nicholas …
Recommended Following years of steady but dead-end employment as a supporting player, actor Charles Bronson abandoned Hollywood for the European continent where, very quickly, he established himself there and in Asia as a major star. It was during Bronson's “European period” that he made some of his best films: Farewell, Friend , Once Upon a Time in the West (both 1968), Rider on the Rain …
Recommended The Movie: As far as mainstream acceptance of LGBT people are concerned, it looks like TV has done a better job lately than feature film did. Shows like Will & Grace and Glee has done wonders in terms of promoting tolerance while still providing simple and corny entertainment. On the other hand, feature films that bring LGBT issues and characters to the forefront tend to get stuck …
Highly Recommended Fed Up is director Stephanie Soechtig's second documentary following 2009's Tapped , which examined the production of bottled water and its disastrous effects on regional water supplies. Not surprisingly, it was an unapologetic, one-sided affair that aggressively attacked corporations bent on putting short-term profits ahead of long-term sustainability. Though it didn't always …
Rent It The Movie: The pleasant, straightforward Burt's Buzz documents a few weeks in the life of Burt Shavitz, otherwise known as the scraggly-bearded man pictured on those Burt's Bees skin care products stocked in drug stores everywhere. Like Kentucky Fried Chicken's Colonel Sanders, it can be disarming to think that there's a real person behind the merchandise. Just as one couldn't picture …
Rent It THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. I'll admit, sometimes the deck is stacked.
Recommended The Movie: Written and directed by Ti West (he of House Of The Devil and The Innkeepers fame) and very clearly influenced by the Jim Jones/People's Temple mass murder, 2013's The Sacrament introduces us to Patrick (Kentucker Audley), a photographer. His sister, Caroline (Amy Seimetz), had some drug addiction issues in the past but since getting out of rehab has found a new start at …
Highly Recommended Muppets Most Wanted Blu-ray Review The world is abetter place because of The Muppets .These characters are ones that bring smiles, joy, and wonderment to theworld throughthese imaginative, fun, and energetic characters. For a while it seemedas thoughthe series and the wonderful characters that make it so awesome weregoing to disappearoff the charts as it had been so many years …