Rent It There's a small but adamant minority out there that positively loathes Frank Capra's otherwise beloved holiday classic It's a Wonderful Life (1946). I have one friend, for instance, who hates the film so much he always refers to it as “It's a Wonderful %$#*ing Life.” I happen to like it myself, warts and all, but regardless it would be interesting to know just how many of these Scrooges …
Rent It The Film: On the surface, Duel At Diablo looks like the kind of movie that subconsciously inspired Blazing Saddles , what with its African American costar playing against a popular Caucasian one, set in the West and battling seemingly insurmountable odds.
Highly Recommended NOTE: The images used to accompany this article are taken from online sources and do not represent the quality of the Blu-ray under review. The Movie: While American genre filmmakers tend not to shy away from depicting violence and brutality, their gory imaginations rarely scale the heights of bodily destruction realized onscreen by their colleagues working in Asia.
Highly Recommended THE FILMS: Spike Lee is a talented, polarizing director who sometimes lets politics get in the way of his filmmaking. His films of late have been disappointing, but this Spike Lee Joint Collection, Vol.
Recommended THE FILM: I am very much over found-footage horror films.
Recommended THE FILM: The second of six collaborations between director Michael Winner and Charles Bronson, The Mechanic is a tough, slow-burn 1970s thriller often remembered for its dialogue-free opening 15 minutes. Bronson is contract killer Arthur Bishop, who is very good at killing people and getting away with it
Rent It The Movie: In the interest of full disclosure, I have never really seen any of Arnold Schwarzenegger's work since his he exited the Governor's office in California some time back.
Recommended Shortly after the beginning of World War II, a shipyard is bombed. Among the casualties: the USS Sea Tiger, a brand-new submarine that had yet to make it out of the dock.
Recommended The Movie: Directed by Walter Hill who co-wrote with David Giler and Michael Kane, 1981's Southern Comfort takes place in Louisiana in 1973. Here, nine National Guardsmen are on a weekend training mission in the backwoods swamps.
DVD Talk Collector Series A fascinating work, Georges Franju's Judex (1963) is at once unique while heavily influenced by both silent and contemporary films alike, and it probably helped spur the increased production less arty but likewise stylized movies in its wake. A crime thriller with science fiction and fantasy trappings, it remakes the famous 1916 French serial with less interest in the …