Recommended Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. The Movie: World War II actioner, psychological drama, buddy flick, progressive if overly earnest “message picture” – 1949’s Home of the Brave juggles several things at once. It hasn’t lost its potency, however, in dealing with racism-induced guilt and shame …
Recommended The Movie: Just in time for the 20th anniversary of the character’s first appearance (way back in John Byrne’s Next Men #21 unless you count San Diego Comic-Con Comics #2 , which was Dark Horse Comics’ comic con exclusive released in August 1993), Anchor Bay has reissued the two animated features that were first unleased on Blu-ray in 2007. This seems, however, to basically be the …
Recommended The Movie: As an honorably discharged soldier from approximately a gajillion years ago, I have a soft spot for war films released before and since my time in the service.
Recommended One of a series of Blu-ray double-feature releases from Sony, Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. (2003) and Godzilla: Final Wars (2004) are the last Japanese-made Godzilla movies to date, possibly ever
DVD Talk Collector Series In 10 Words or Less Back to the depths, this time on Blu-ray Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Jeff Goldblum, The Criterion Collection Likes: Bill Murray, Wes Anderson, most of this cast Dislikes: Getting no new extras Hates: Not a whole lot about this movie The Movie Currently sitting at six, but likely to reach eight with the inevitable releases of Moonrise Kingdom and The …
Highly Recommended The Mini-Series: Back in 2006, the first sketch aired on the British comedy series That Mitchell and Webb Look , starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb of the popular sitcom Peep Show , portrayed two Nazis on the Russian front some time during the wane of World War II.
Skip It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Michael Caine is the star of the original 1971 Get Carter and stars in this 2000 remake with Sylvester Stallone in the lead as mob enforcer Jack Carter. The original was gritty and exciting; this one not so much.
Recommended The Movie: Written and directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet and released theatrically in 1970, Eden And After is one of the stranger films in the filmmaker’s already bizarre filmography. The beginning of the film is centered around the appropriately titled Eden Caf , a coffee house that attracts a crowd of art students who seem to appreciate its anti-social sensibilities
Recommended Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the DVD portion of Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron . The Movie: Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron is a movie about a headstrong horse who’ll never, ever be tamed – he’s “come into this world, wild and free,” galloping through the American West “wild and untamed” – and if anyone tries to reign him in, he’s “never gonna give in” (Bryan …
Skip It Less than a year ago, Acorn collected the first two “Jack Irish” telemovies into a Blu-Ray set. The films, based on the books by author Peter Temple, followed Irish (Guy Pearce) as he slowly shifts from being a fancy criminal attorney to being a private investigator, while recovering from the murder of his wife, Isabel.