Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. A few years after Wes Craven directed The Last House on the Left and The Hills Have Eyes but before his big breakout, A Nightmare on Elm Street , he made Deadly Blessing , which is more interesting as a precursor of what’s to come than an effective horror …
Josh Brolin is cautioning movie critics not to correlate violence in films too strongly to real-life events.
Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less Immature comedy for mature people – now on Blu-Ray Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Animation, unusual art style Likes: Anime, T&A comedy Dislikes: Weak puns, potty humor Hates: Sex-shy anime characters The Show When I saw a trailer for Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt , I was immediately hooked, and not because of the promise of a sex-filled romp offered by the …
Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. A doctor getting a god complex is a well-worn genre trope, explored in movies as far apart as Stanley Kramer’s Not as a Stranger (1955) and the Alec Baldwin vehicle Malice (1995). With those movies, the story usually involves the docs overestimating their power to …
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. You’d be forgiven for forgetting Resident Evil: Retribution’s super generic subtitle, as it may as well be called “This Year’s Resident Evil 3D.” This is the fifth Milla Jovovich-lead film in the franchise, and directly follows the events of last year’s Resident Evil: Afterlife , which marked the return of …
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Hollywood is always inventing new gimmicks to get moviegoers pumped up about the release of this or that new or upcoming film.
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the 2002 DVD release of the film, not the Blu-ray edition under review. In the spring of 1990, Disney was pushing Dick Tracy , Warren Beatty’s big-screen adaptation of the iconic Chester Gould comic strip, with a torrent of merchandise and publicity
Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are from the included DVD edition, not the Blu-ray version. If, at the time of late 2008’s contentious presidential election and brutal economic meltdown, you’d told me that current events would, come 2012 and via HBO, give rise to a scenario in which L.A
Skip It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Although it appears to be an honest effort and a carefully planned directorial debut for Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal, The Words is much less interesting than it realizes.