Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Perhaps you’ve heard of “middle-film syndrome.” That’s my own terminology, but you’ve seen the signs in films infected with this ailment: superfluous plotting, lack of narrative drive, and general pointlessness
The absence of female directors and producers in Hollywood probably explains why, in the post-Bridesmaids era, there are still so few movies about women. Still, it’s nice to know that the imbalance is for no legitimate business reason, and the movies that do get made sell just as well as … More »    Â
Rent It Kamisama Kiss Blu-ray Review Kamisama Kiss is the latest anime directed by Akitaro Daichi ( Fruits Basket , Now and Then, Here and There ). Theproduction of the anime started in 2012 and it was produced by TMSEntertainment as an adaptation of the manga series written by JuliettaSuzuki and released throughout North America by VIZ. The animeadaptation has been dubbed and released by …
Recommended The Movie: For all of the commercials that shill fizzy golden water most Sundays in the fall for football, the overall message, it would appear that the only film that has effectively explored a grown man’s fandom for a sports team has been Fever Pitch . Based on the work of a writer whose name is familiar to many, it went from a book to a movie to an American remake that explored …
Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less Harold Lloyd tackles popularity at college Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Classic comedies Likes: Harold Lloyd, good slapstick Dislikes: Most silent films Hates: Big-time college sports, most modern slapstick The Movie The Criterion Collection has long been in the Charlie Chaplin business, but they’ve kept the other members of the silent comedy holy trinity …
Skip It The Film: Several optimistic possibilities rush through one’s mind while watching the trailer for 47 Ronin , Carl Rinsch’s costly feature-length debut. Could it be visually interesting in the vein of Asia’s native martial-arts fantasies? Or, will it offer enough swordsmanship and wizardry within it quasi-historical Japanese context to become something of a guilty pleasure
Recommended Largely forgotten in the decades following its 1974 release, Martin Ritt’s Conrack is one of the better “inspiring teacher” movies in a sub-genre full of entries. It certainly wasn’t the first of its kind: earlier productions like Goodbye Mr
Recommended The Movie: The first film directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet is an intentionally odd film that follows the exploits of a French professor (Jacques Doniol-Valcroze) in Turkey whose unhappy existence is brightened by an encounter with a stunningly beautiful, albeit very mysterious, woman (Fran oise Brion).
Rent It The Movie: This DVD release from Image Entertainment collects the nine shorts that the director of Fright Night and Child’s Play created as an exclusive web series for FEARnet. Holland is no stranger to anthology horror, having worked on HBO’s Tales From The Crypt series back when it was still on the air and this new project sees him collaborate with a few faces bound to be familiar to …
Scorsese’s “The Wolf of Wall Street” is this week’s best bet for DVD/Blu-ray releases