Dragon Ball Z: Season 1 (Blu-ray)
Recommended Oh, the tortured life of Dragon Ball Z on home video.
January 5, 2014
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Recommended Oh, the tortured life of Dragon Ball Z on home video.
Recommended North to Alaska (1960) is a big-scale but disappointing John Wayne Western-romantic comedy set in Nome at the turn of the century. It was produced in part to cash-in on Alaska’s recent statehood, but was mainly an attempt by powerful producer-talent agent Charles K. Feldman to provide his then-girlfriend, French model-turned-actress Capucine, with a career-boosting star vehicle …
Recommended The Movie: Written and directed by Paul Schrader, the 1982 remake of Jacques Tourner’s 1942 picture Cat People definitely takes things in its own direction, in fact there really aren’t a whole lot of similarities between the two outside of the basic concept. This more modern take introduces us to a beautiful young woman named Irene Gallier (Nastassia Kinski) whose adoptive parents …
Rent It Reviewed by Glenn Erickson The early and middle 1960s were the real boom years for American-International Pictures, when their “Beach Party” movie series was pulling down high rentals and Vincent Price horror pictures were being reviewed as prestige productions. A.I.P
Recommended Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Recommended Reviewed by Glenn Erickson Under its proprietary branded line Scream Factory, the busy Shout! Factory Company continues to release neglected titles from the MGM library, which contains a large number of fantasy, horror and sci-fi pictures from Orion, A.I.P. and United Artists. This Double Feature Blu-ray / DVD combo disc pairs two UA pix with vaguely ‘prehistoric’ themes.
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Nearly a decade after The Chronicles of Riddick underwhelmed audiences and critics, Director David Twohy and star Vin Diesel are back with a new off-world adventure for the popular antihero Riddick. This second sequel to Pitch Black returns to the moderate budget filmmaking that made that film successful, and …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. The father and son relationship at the heart of Lee Daniels’ The Butler nearly eclipses the story proper, which concerns African-American Cecil Gaines, a longtime White House butler who served during eight administrations over 34 years
Rent It THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. I’m a bit stymied how to even begin approaching this one
Rent It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Casey Affleck assumes the quiet, thoughtful demeanor of his cowardly killer in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford again in Director David Lowery’s Ain’t Them Bodies Saints . Less a coward than a lovesick ne’er-do-well, Affleck’s Bob Muldoon takes the blame for shooting a cop to save his …