Thou Shalt Not Kill… Except (Blu-ray)
Highly Recommended Dateline! 1969. In this corner: a ragtag bunch of vets fresh off a particularly brutal tour of duty in Vietnam.
April 3, 2012
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Highly Recommended Dateline! 1969. In this corner: a ragtag bunch of vets fresh off a particularly brutal tour of duty in Vietnam.
DVD Talk Collector Series THE FILM: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from the DVD version included in the set, not the Blu-ray edition under review. A cinematic event years in the making, the 2010 restoration of Georges M li s’s technically pioneering, thematically prescient, eternally charming 1902 film A Trip to the Moon ( Le Voyage dans la Lune ) represents, for the …
LOS ANGELES — Everyone wants the happily-ever-after — that’s why fairy tale movies are so popular. This week, we have “Mirror Mirror,” a cheeky take on “Snow White” from the pers
DVD Talk Collector Series There have been far too many “reboots,” “reimaginings,” and “reimagineerings” lately. And, anyway, aren’t those terms merely euphemisms for “Sure, we’ve made truckloads of money, but we can generate even more dough starting from scratch over and marketing an ‘event,’ rather than a mere sequel”?
Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from promotional materials provided by Kino Lorber, not the Blu-ray edition under review. Celebrity profiles might seem to be one of the more disposable categories of entertainment, but like anything else, it’s all in the details and execution.
Highly Recommended The Movies: Written and directed by comic book impresario Joann Sfar in 2010 (making this his directorial debut feature), Gainsbourg – a Heroic Life (or, if you prefer the original language title, Gainsbourg -Vie Heroique ) takes on the fairly unfilmable life of the late, great French musician, singer, songwriter and ladies man Serge Gainsbourg. The film begins during the …
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Roman Polanski’s Carnage begins at what appears to be the end. Two pairs of parents, the Longstreets (Jodie Foster and John C. Reilly) and the Cowans (Kate Winslet and Christoph Waltz), have met at the former’s apartment because their two sons have had a fight
Recommended “It was Avatar who fought alongside my father against the first mutant attack. So, now we have our messiah back again
Rent It Adapting Michael Crichton’s novel of the same name, which had been released earlier that same year, Disclosure (1994) is a somewhat better than one might expect.
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the film’s promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. An expedition of four enters the Siberian wilderness.