Recommended In 10 Words or Less Thankfully the movie is good, because the Blu-Ray… Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: The Rocketeer, Jennifer Connelly Likes: Pulp fiction Dislikes: The lack of Rocketeer sequels Hates: Decidedly un-special special editions The Movie When I was a kid, I don’t know if there was a cooler superhero than The Rocketeer
DVD Talk Collector Series THE MOVIE: Please Note: The images used here are promotional stills and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. No one likes jury duty.
Highly Recommended Within our lifetimes we’ve marveled as biologists have managed to look at ever smaller and smaller things; And astronomers have looked further and further into the dark night sky, back in time and out in space. But maybe the most mysterious of all is neither the small nor the large; it’s us, up close. Could we even recognize ourselves, and, if we did, would we know ourselves …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from the 1999 DVD release and reflect neither the corrected aspect ratio nor the improved image quality of the Blu-ray edition under review. All the excitement leading up to the 1998 release of Velvet Goldmine , Todd Haynes’s ( I’m Not There ) epic meditation on the “glam rock” pop-music movement of the early 1970s …
DVD Talk Collector Series The Series: One of the first really impressive TV shows to be released onBlu-ray, The Planet Earth , has been the go-to disc in my houseto illustrate to visitors the quality of Blu-ray discs.
Rent It The Movie: Originally intended to be directed by Brett Ratner, 2011’s Conan The Barbarian wound up being helmed by Marcus Nispel, the same man who brought us remakes of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Friday The 13th . When the film begins after some narration from Morgan Freeman, a Cimmerian warrior named Corin (Ron Perlman) helps his wife give birth to their baby boy right there on the …
Recommended The Film Web Series: Assassin’s Creed: Lineage isn’t being marketed properly. There’s really no way of getting around it: claiming that it’s “the movie prequel” to the wildly popular videogame series misleads those who glance over the cover, since the main feature only takes up about thirty-five (35) minutes — even though the back of the packaging insists that it’s two-and-a-half …
Highly Recommended Though well regarded, Little Big Man (1970) is nonetheless a vastly underrated work, and one of the all-time great Westerns, the “the story of the Human Beings, who was promised land where they could live in peace.
Rent It The Movie: Developed, written and produced by Mortal Kombat superfan Kevin Tancharoen, Mortal Kombat: Legacy was originally conceived as a web series that premiered in the spring of 2011 on Machinima.com’s Youtube channel after a film that Tancharoen made got noticed. The series proved fairly popular with fans of the Mortal Kombat universe and Tancharoen’s attention to detail assured …
DVD Talk Collector Series THE FILM: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from the 2004 DVD release, not the Blu-ray edition under review. “The horrible thing about life is this: Everyone has their reasons.” A tragicomic masterpiece and an all-around great, inventive, sparkling, deservedly revered movie, Jean Renoir’s The Rules of the Game ( La R gle du jeu ) (released in 1939) is …