Skip It NOTE: The photos accompanying this review are taken from promotional materials and do not AT ALL reflect the quality of the Blu-ray under review. The Movie: Viewed now, it's hard to deny that On Golden Pond , the second biggest box office hit of 1981 (behind Raiders of the Lost Ark ) and winner of three Academy Awards, is more than a little cheesy.
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Highly Recommended The Movie: Most of us should know by now that the Western genre is inspired more from cowboys and Indians fantasies than any realistic depiction of 19 th century life in the actual west. Life in the harsh, unforgiving and isolated parts of the country during that time was more about survival, of the body and of the mind, than anything else
Rent It The Movie: If you're unfamiliar with Fellini's work and would like to begin somewhere, watching Satyricon first would probably be the worst choice. With Satyricon, Fellini's late 60s eccentric and experimental phase reached its peak, creating a fascinatingly yet frustratingly disconnected and incoherent oddity that resembled more of an LSD-induced fever dream sci-fi/fantasy than a …
Rent It The Movie: I would like to take the time to thank Jon Stewart for announcing his departure from The Daily Show , off to undertake endeavors that are unknown to me. Not because of his time spent on the show which mind you, was prodigious, but that he managed to give an unknown amount of dum-dums like myself some form of segue and/or introduction to the last notable time Stewart left his …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Steve James crafts another powerful, warts-and-all documentary, this time about longtime Chicago movie critic Roger Ebert. The Hoop Dreams director pulls from Ebert's own memoir, and, fittingly, Martin Scorsese is an executive producer. Deep into production before Ebert's final bout with cancer, Life Itself is a triumphant portrait of an influential journalist and …
Recommended The Movie: How To Murder Your Wife is one bizarro movie which tells a very adult story in a childlike manner (at times, it felt like live-action Disney comedy with naughty bits). An item from the MGM/UA back catalog given a polished Blu Ray re-release thanks to the folks at Olive Films, this loopy, underseen 1965 comedy is ripe for a re-appraisal.
Recommended The Film: Unless you're throttling a spaceship towards the gravitational pull of a celestial boy, the methods in which time travel occur in fiction will always seem more magical than scientific, no matter if it's rudimentary wired-up cockpits powered by technobabble or tricked-out Delorians and blue telephone booths. What matters is how the time-travel itself gets used, whether for …
Recommended The Movie: During an interview featured in one of the extras for A Day in the Country, Renoir scholar Christopher Faulkner points out how much of an odd choice this wistful and nostalgic ode to the simple pleasures of life was for the director at the time. Renoir shot A Day in the Country, adapted from a short story by Guy de Maupassant, in the middle of a career and personal life …
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