Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. It would seem that in the wake of success of both the 1939 version of Wuthering Heights and perhaps even more so Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca in 1940, a slew of brooding romantic period pieces followed. Olive Films has started to corner the market …
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
DVD Talk Collector Series Cannibal Holocaust: “Just sit back and enjoy the show.” Cannibal Holocaust is the Star Wars of cannibal movies. It’s the Star Wars of found-footage movies, and pretty much exploitation films in general
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from standard-issue DVD included in the Criterion combo, not the Blu-ray.
Recommended Attack on Titan – Set 1 Blu-ray Review There’s a certain little series known as Attackon Titan .You may have heard of it. It’s the most discussed anime seriescurrently aroundwith a huge audience and a great deal of fervor around the entireglobe.Funimation has recently acquired this series: the biggest anime hit oftheyear. Astonishing viewers worldwide, Attack on Titan is …
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Jake Gyllenhaal plays two men that look exactly alike in the odd, haunting Enemy .
Recommended Kismet (1955) was a big flop when it was new, earning $1.8 million against a $3 million production cost, one of a handful of costly financial failures for the studio that year ( It’s Always Fair Weather , Jupiter’s Darling , and Hit the Deck all lost money), though Kismet appears to have been the biggest financial loser. Previously filmed twice by Warner Bros., first as a 1920 silent …
Highly Recommended The Movie: Released in 1955, The Man from Laramie is a masterful conclusion to a run of five “psychological” Westerns starring James Stewart and directed by Anthony Mann, which began with 1950’s similarly excellent Winchester ’73 .
Recommended Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries – Season 2 – Blu-ray Review It’s time for a little bit of an imported mysteryphenomenon: Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries is a popular andacclaimedtelevision production produced in Australia that has literally “madewaves” outside of its home country by being imported to over 120differentstations and distributors around the globe. It’s become a huge …
Recommended Oh, the tortured life of Dragon Ball Z on home video.