DVD Talk Collector Series The Movie: Years of parody and homage and outright emulation have done little to dim the magnificence of Fran ois Truffaut’s third feature film, Jules and Jim .
Recommended When an Egyptian army, led by British troops, falls for a trap in the Sudanese desert and is brutally murdered, it presents a major problem for British Prime Minister William Gladstone (Ralph Richardson). The Sudan is a protectorate of the UK, and they are obligated to help the people there, especially considering the battle helped arm the attackers, a group of Muslim zealots led by …
Recommended Historical war films aren’t usually my cup of tea, unless they cover events that haven’t been done to death already. Cy Endfield’s Zulu (1964) fits the bill by dropping us smack in the beginning of the Anglo-Zulu War circa January 1879, as we see a conflict between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom develops in south-eastern Africa. In particular, Zulu recounts the Battle of …
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. A film about Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone escaping a maximum-security prison together is either going to be something you want to see or it isn’t. Escape Plan slid under the radar last fall and seemed like the icing on a particularly bad year for the indestructible duo following their …
Highly Recommended The Movie: Even though About Time ‘s key conceit is that lanky ginger Tim (Domhnall Gleeson, Brendan’s boy) has inherited from his father (the perpetually awesome Bill Nighy) the ability to travel back in time to previously lived moments in his life and change them as he sees fit, writer-director Richard Curtis ( Love Actually , Notting Hill ) is not all that interested in …
Rent It The Movie: Directed by Liliana Cavani in 1970, I Cannibali (or Year Of The Cannibals if you prefer) is set in the city of Milan where the government has cracked down on radicals and left their bodies littering the streets as a warning sign of sorts. The bodies come from all spectrums of life, male and female, young and old alike but it seems that the young outnumber the old by quite a …
Recommended Khumba , produced in South Africa, didn’t get a theatrical release here in the States but it’s been released on disc from Millennium Entertainment. The title character (voiced by Jake T
Skip It Clyde Barrow (Emile Hirsch) is a young troublemaker blessed with a “second sight” — an ability to see his own future. Bonnie Parker (Holliday Grainger) is a very young girl with dreams of Hollywood stardom
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Highly Recommended Across television and film, there are at least 32 adaptations of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr