Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. In an amusing recurring gag, the Dwight Twilley Band’s “Looking for Magic,” from their 1977 LP Twilley Don’t Mind , plays on loop from the CD player of the philandering couple murdered in the opening scene of You’re Next , Director Adam Wingard’s very funny, very bloody and long-shelved horror film …
Rent It Carrie Blu-ray Review Carrie isthelatest in a long running string of remakes of much-beloved films in thehorrorgenre that includes far too many films to even list or begin to count.Thistime around, the director is Kimberly Peirce ( Boys Don’tCry, Stop-Loss ) and the star is the up-and-comer ChloëGrace Moretz ( Hugo , Let Me In , Kick Ass ) in the role of Carrie White. The film …
Rent It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. In the opening scenes of We Are What We Are , the matriarch of the Parker family rushes to her truck in a downpour, tense and in fear.
Highly Recommended THE SERIES: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Subtle it is not, but Kevin Williamson’s The Following is crackling entertainment buoyed by strong performances from Kevin Bacon, as an FBI agent with emotional baggage, and James Purefoy, as a cunning serial killer and cult leader on the run.
Highly Recommended So, I’m looking down at the notes I jotted down while mainlining the fourth season of Archer on Blu-ray. Extended dog birthday flashback. Prehensile tail riff
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. “You are she who is not, I am he who is. ” If ever a film embodied a state of mind, it would be Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1983 release, Nostalghia .
Rent It What should’ve been a nice date night for Robert Dorian (Dylan McDermott) just took a turn for the worse.
Highly Recommended It’s a shame that Jesse James (1939), Fox’s big Technicolor Western starring Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, and Randolph Scott, is remembered for its historical inaccuracies and for one notorious scene of alleged animal abuse than for the movie itself. That’s because the movie, for the most part, is excellent, in some respects way ahead of its time
Rent It The title might be “Run”, but the word they want you to know is parkour , which the back cover defines as “always moving forward despite obstacles within the environment.” I’ve known the word only from that sample clip from “The Office” that comes on whenever I bring up the Hulu Plus app on my TV to remind myself why I don’t subscribe to it, which defines parkour as “getting from point A …
Highly Recommended The Movie: Hail Mary is one of two films directed by Jean-Luc Godard that the Cohen Media Group is releasing in beautiful new Blu-ray editions (the other is For Ever Mozart ). Originally released in 1985, Hail Mary is considered part of Godard’s “second Golden Age,” where his experimentation and intellectualism managed to not alienate wider audiences and he managed to have …