Rent It Himalaya Blu-ray Review Himalaya is acritically acclaimed film from director Eric Valli,which went on to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at theAcademyAwards during the original year of release in 1999. …
Highly Recommended Most people with any knowledge of rock music (or Martin Scorsese’s movies) can summon The Rolling Stones’ “Gimme Shelter” to mind. Powerful riffs, Mick Jagger, and a woman, belting out the memorable lyric, “it’s just a shot away” at the top of her lungs. Merry Clayton generally got her work doing back-up vocals, and she’s not alone: 20 Feet From Stardom interviews a whole …
Rent It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Casey Affleck assumes the quiet, thoughtful demeanor of his cowardly killer in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford again in Director David Lowery’s Ain’t Them Bodies Saints . Less a coward than a lovesick ne’er-do-well, Affleck’s Bob Muldoon takes the blame for shooting a cop to save his …
Rent It Dateline! 1980. Rumors have started making the rounds about some sort of accident at the nuclear power plant down the way.
Recommended The Movie: Of all the filmed versions of Jack London’s novel The Call of the Wild , the rousing, slick 1935 version starring Clark Gable and Loretta Young may be considered the most memorable. That’s not due to anything that transpires in the film, however – nope, it’s because Clark and Loretta’s shacked up offscreen (resulting in a child whom Loretta claimed was adopted)
Recommended The Movie: As far as all-black musicals are concerned, 20th Century Fox’s 1954 production Carmen Jones is a towering achievement.
Highly Recommended THE FILM: It is difficult to objectively review Fast & Furious 6 since its star, Paul Walker, died so suddenly on November 30. I grew up with these films. I was the target audience for The Fast and the Furious back in 2001, and I remain a fan of the franchise.
Recommended The Vivien Leigh Anniversary Collection is a mostly worthwhile set of the four of the five British films actress Leigh appeared in just prior to leaving for America to star in Gone with the Wind (1939). For those, like this reviewer, who know Leigh primarily for that film, A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), Ship of Fools (1965) and one or two others, the set is an intriguing one.
Recommended THE FILMS: With Paramount’s Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit on the horizon, it is appropriate to revisit the four older Ryan thrillers. Culled from Tom Clancy’s novels, each film has its merits and all are worth watching. The series has thus far had three leading men – Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford and Ben Affleck – and Chris Pine is set to play the sometimes CIA agent Ryan in Shadow Recruit …