June 12, 2014
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Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Oliver Stone appears to have taken personally much of the criticism lobbed at his big-budget 2004 dramatization of Alexander the Great’s life, which underperformed stateside and received some gleefully nasty critical reviews. I saw the film in theaters, and, while heavily flawed, Alexander showed sparks of …
Teller of Penn & Teller finally speaks his mind, at least in a documentary, in this week’s best bet for DVD/Blu-ray releases
Recommended “Longmire” is currently entering its third season on A&E.
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Perhaps director Jaume Collet-Serra and Liam Neeson will become the next De Niro and Scorsese or Hitchcock and Grant. They are not off to a terrible start: Unknown is a serviceable if imperfect thriller, and the pair again evokes the Master of Suspense with Non-Stop , a claustrophobic thriller set aboard a …
Skip It At a fancy dinner party, the villainous Japanese General Zhao (Waise Lee) confronts a Chinese photographer, jokingly asking if he’s about to assassinate the visiting prince. They both laugh, but at the end of it, Zhao has a gun pointed at the photographer’s stomach.
Recommended The Series: The fourth season of Comedy Central’s series Workaholics continues to follow the exploits of Blake Henderson (Blake Anderson), Adam DeMamp (Adam DeVine) and Anders Homvik (Anders Holm), a trio of roommates who work together in a call center for the TelAmeriCorp corporation.
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Director Ralph Nelson’s Fate is the Hunter is based on Ernest K. Gann’s novel of the same name, but the author was so displeased with this film adaptation that he asked to be removed from its credits. Gann’s autobiography recounts his years piloting for American Airlines in the early days of commercial aviation and often reads like a fictional adventure thanks to …
“Cheap Thrills,” “Endless Love,” and “Gambit” are among this week’s top DVD releases