DVD Talk Collector Series Some movies get a bum rap. Such is the case of Raise the Titanic (1980), a critical flop and, more importantly, a colossal commercial failure with $7 million in U.S. and Canadian earnings against a $40 million negative cost
Rent It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. In the opening scenes of We Are What We Are , the matriarch of the Parker family rushes to her truck in a downpour, tense and in fear.
Recommended Machete Kills – Blu-ray Review Remember that little film called Grindhouse ?The one that united longtime filmmaking friends Robert Rodriguez andQuentin Tarantino with a massive double-feature bill that was releasedinto theaters with a two-for-the-price-of-one experience rolled in withfake-trailers and both Rodriguez’s PlanetTerror and Tarantino’s DeathProof ? So do I. It …
Rent It The Movie: A creature-feature comedy whose premise brings to mind the ’80s work of Frank Henenlotter ( Basket Case ) and Joe Dante ( Gremlins ), Bad Milo! unfortunately lacks a bit of those filmmakers’ gonzo convictions to take their stories to the most imaginative extremes. That’s not to say that the movie is a bust, because there’s a lot for genre and comedy fans to like in Bad Milo …
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. “You are she who is not, I am he who is. ” If ever a film embodied a state of mind, it would be Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1983 release, Nostalghia .
Highly Recommended It’s a shame that Jesse James (1939), Fox’s big Technicolor Western starring Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, and Randolph Scott, is remembered for its historical inaccuracies and for one notorious scene of alleged animal abuse than for the movie itself. That’s because the movie, for the most part, is excellent, in some respects way ahead of its time
Rent It The title might be “Run”, but the word they want you to know is parkour , which the back cover defines as “always moving forward despite obstacles within the environment.” I’ve known the word only from that sample clip from “The Office” that comes on whenever I bring up the Hulu Plus app on my TV to remind myself why I don’t subscribe to it, which defines parkour as “getting from point A …
Every year Hollywood reminds us that the plight of the geek is its plight as well. Last year we saw some amazing geeky movies grace the bring screen in the form of Star Trek: Into Darkness, Man of Steel and Iron Man 3
Highly Recommended The Movie: Hail Mary is one of two films directed by Jean-Luc Godard that the Cohen Media Group is releasing in beautiful new Blu-ray editions (the other is For Ever Mozart ). Originally released in 1985, Hail Mary is considered part of Godard’s “second Golden Age,” where his experimentation and intellectualism managed to not alienate wider audiences and he managed to have …