The state of Utah’s most famous Bureau of Land Management auction interloper is scheduled to complete his two-year prison term on Sunday. On Monday, Earth Day, the Salt Lake Film Society will …
Recommended Reviewed by Glenn Erickson With 1970’s The Vampire Lovers , the Hammer House of Horror took a turn toward softcore exploitation. It stars the short-lived but long admired scream queen Ingrid Pitt, a husky-voiced Eastern-European beauty who over the years has become an icon for Hammer fans and one of the genre’s most attention-getting sex symbols
Recommended The Movie: When I reviewed the San Francisco Giants’ Collector’s Edition of Blu-ray discs that commemorated their 2012 World Series win , I bemoaned the fact that the set was as complete as could be, minus the addition of a season in review film, or even one covering the Giants’ move through the postseason. Lo and behold, it turns out MLB Video (in coordination with A&E) actually did …
Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less Brilliant ’80s time capsule in cult-classic form Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Crazy plots Likes: Don Coscarelli films Dislikes: Gore Hates: When people can’t handle originality The Movie Unlike many fans of Repo Man , I discovered the film a bit later in life. I was always aware of the film, even if I did sometimes confuse it with another Emilio Estevez favorite …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Over a decade in the making, Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln is a meticulous, accomplished dramatization of the Great Emancipator’s push to enact the Thirteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution before the end of the Civil War
Skip It Before the wide adoption of DVD and Blu-Ray, it seemed like there was a sense that other countries were making much better movies than America. A Run Lola Run here, an Oldboy there, and suddenly foreign film became a movie-geek magnet
Recommended THE FILM Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials, not the current Blu-ray edition under review. To a socially conscious filmmaker like Hector Babenco (an Argentine-born Brazilian filmmaker who, before he took Hollywood and Oscar with 1985’s Kiss of the Spider Woman , made more or less directly activist narrative features in Brazil), it must have seemed …
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu – ray edition under review. Critics are fond of declaring things like, “It’s the best time I had at the movies all year!” Only, when we do, it’s not supposed to be about a movie that is over 70 years old.
Skip It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu – ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Marlon Wayans built his career on irreverent spoof comedies, with performances in Scary Movie and its sequel, both of which Wayans’ brother, Keenen Ivory Wayans, directed.
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu – ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. After a violent confrontation with his wife’s lover, Paris attorney Paul Exben becomes a chameleon, slinking through the lives of others while calculating his future. This French thriller, directed by Eric Lartigau, is less suspenseful than haunting, and Romain Duris gives Exben a wide-eyed alertness seemingly …