Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Perhaps director Jaume Collet-Serra and Liam Neeson will become the next De Niro and Scorsese or Hitchcock and Grant. They are not off to a terrible start: Unknown is a serviceable if imperfect thriller, and the pair again evokes the Master of Suspense with Non-Stop , a claustrophobic thriller set aboard a …
Skip It At a fancy dinner party, the villainous Japanese General Zhao (Waise Lee) confronts a Chinese photographer, jokingly asking if he’s about to assassinate the visiting prince. They both laugh, but at the end of it, Zhao has a gun pointed at the photographer’s stomach.
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Director Ralph Nelson’s Fate is the Hunter is based on Ernest K.
Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. There are moments of pure craziness in Sam Peckinpah’s 1974 bloodbath Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia .
Rent It C’mon, you know you had me at “Dutch zombie flick”. [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] The good news…? Aziz (Yahya Gaier) has finally landed a date with Tess (Nadia Poeschm…
Highly Recommended Flying Tigers (1942) is an impressive, still exciting example of early wartime propaganda. John Wayne, in his first war movie, stars as the leader of a squadron of mercenary pilots fighting the Japanese in the days before (and, late in the film, after) the attack on Pearl Harbor in a picture brimming with war movie clich s.
Highly Recommended The Movie: Growing up in a household with one parent who was an unabashed John Wayne fan, I grew to appreciate his work but in different ways. I have grown to realize that Wayne was a bit of an underrated actor in his time, and with Red River this was one of (if not) his first turn from preconceived notions on his character and how he turns from upstanding protagonist to a …
Recommended The Movie: Not even halfway before it was over, my viewing companion christened MGM’s musical Hit the Deck as the “lamest movie ever.” Ouch. If not exactly a classic of the Singin’ in the Rain sort, this 1955 effort still amuses with a fun, perky cast
Highly Recommended Joseph Anthony’s compelling Tomorrow (1972) is by no means a comfortable film, or at least it’s not supposed to be. Long stretches of silence are occasionally broken by awkward, thickly-accented dialogue. Shooting locations are rustic, run-down and lonely
Rent It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. The production design, effects and camera work in Director Fedor Bondarchuk’s Stalingrad are top notch; the narrative and characters, less so