Highly Recommended The Film: Thomas Vinterberg has found a way to turn a pre-school girl into something of a villain in The Hunt ( Jagten ), a morally and psychologically complex dramatic-thriller — perhaps even a bit of a horror film — centered on the crowd mentality of inquisitions based on unfalsifiable accusations. By design, the material here is tough to digest: it focuses on how a …
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the DVD copy included in the package, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
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.
Skip It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. By all accounts, the late Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs was a complicated man.
Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less More minions, but too much stuffing Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Animation, Minions, Despicable Me Likes: Kristin Wiig, Steve Carell Dislikes: Meaningless sequels Hates: The Story So Far… The first film from Chris Meledandri’s Illumination Entertainment, Despicable Me was a out-of-nowhere hit, telling the animated story of Gru (Steve Carell), a supervillain …
Skip It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. I may not be the target audience for young adult film adaptation The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones but I was willing to give it a fair shake.
Recommended In 10 Words or Less The little blue girl gets center stage Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Good animation, Neil Patrick Harris, Jayma Mays Likes: The Smurfs cartoons, Hank Azaria Dislikes: Most TV-show movie adaptations Hates: Grouchy, wasted talent The Story So Far… The Smurfs, little, magical, blue forest creatures, were a phenomenon in the 80s thanks to their popular TV cartoon, but …
Rent It The majority of American film fans will only maybe know Jay Chou from The Green Hornet , the underrated Michel Gondry-directed, Seth Rogen / Evan Goldberg-scripted adaptation that cast the actor as actual hero Kato to Rogen’s dim Hornet. In his home country of China, however, Chou rose to fame as a songwriter for numerous pop acts after an appearance on a televised competition show, then …
DVD Talk Collector Series “There are eight million stories in the naked city…” …and here are 138 of them.
Highly Recommended To be perfectly honest, when I requested The Attack it was listed in our screener pool only as “Attack” and I thought it was the same-named 1955 Robert Aldrich war movie. Instead, it turned out to be a partly American-financed movie about an Arab man living in Tel Aviv coming to grips with the realization that his wife may have been responsible for a suicide bombing that …