North Face (Blu-ray)
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution.
July 3, 2013
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Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution.
Recommended The Movie: Crashout , released in 1955, follows a group of six convicts (William Bendix, Arthur Kennedy, Luther Adler, Gene Evans, William Talman and Marshall Thompson) after they escape from prison in a big “crashout” with several others who didn’t make it out very far. The six lucky ones quickly find an old mine shaft where they hide out for a couple days and plan their next moves …
Highly Recommended I was amazed at how well the trailer of Stoker was able to reel me in. Marketing campaigns typically only have the ability to make me say yay or nay, but this time, I actually found myself intrigued on a much deeper level. There were flashes that indicated a tense love triangle would revolve around a man seducing both mother and daughter – The former a reflection of what …
Recommended The Movie: The directorial debut of Eric Red (who also wrote), 1989’s Cohen And Tate begins at a farm, looking as serene and peaceful as you’d expect, except for the armed guards surrounding the house.
Highly Recommended The Movie: With the news of the day covering things like America’s security agencies monitoring their citizens’ phone calls and communications in various electronic forms, the Oscar-nominated Dror Moreh documentary The Gatekeepers couldn’t see a better time for a video release. Moreh interviewed the last six former directors of the Shin Bet, the principal security organization …
Highly Recommended During the early 1930s, ambitious comedy producer Hal Roach, anxious to move away from the two-reel comedies for which he was famous, decided that his ticket to bigger and better things lay in feature-length, lavishly costumed adaptations of operettas. And yet the resulting, dramatically wobbly films, Fra Diavolo , Babes in Toyland , and The Bohemian Girl , would be forgotten …
Recommended Alice (Juno Temple) and John (Michael Angarano) are young and in love. Wait, scratch that: let’s go with “young, in love, and flat broke” instead. That’s what overpriced, [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] Read the entire review
Skip It In 10 Words or Less An all-star sketch comedy mess Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Sketch movies, Emma Stone Likes: Many of this film’s stars Dislikes: Potty humor Hates: Lazy filmmaking The Movie You know that thing where when a kid does something wrong, and the parent says “I’m not mad. I’m just disappointed”
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