Highly Recommended There’s…I don’t know, there’s a word I’m looking for here — one word that tells you everything you need to know about the second season of Archer without having to slog through a whole long, rambling review. I think it goes something like: You were supposed to click the ‘Play’ button on that, by the way
Recommended It never fails – You give a television network pure gold, and they’ll beat it and roll it around in the mud before you ever had a chance to realize what was happening to it. Instead of looking at the quality of any given program, network executives would rather comb feverishly through their charts, graphs and reams of statistical data, and in pondering how much blood they might be …
DVD Talk Collector Series THE MOVIE: Please Note: The images used here are promotional stills for the film and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review.
Recommended In 10 Words or Less Thankfully the movie is good, because the Blu-Ray… Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: The Rocketeer, Jennifer Connelly Likes: Pulp fiction Dislikes: The lack of Rocketeer sequels Hates: Decidedly un-special special editions The Movie When I was a kid, I don’t know if there was a cooler superhero than The Rocketeer
Highly Recommended THE CONCERT: I have to admit right off the bat that, while I count Mahler among my favorite composers, I am at best a classical-music dilettante whose first exposure to and interest in his music came from hearing alluring snatches of it in movies, from Husbands and Wives to In a Year with 13 Moons to Velvet Goldmine ; the performance of his second symphony that is under review …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from the 1999 DVD release and reflect neither the corrected aspect ratio nor the improved image quality of the Blu-ray edition under review. All the excitement leading up to the 1998 release of Velvet Goldmine , Todd Haynes’s ( I’m Not There ) epic meditation on the “glam rock” pop-music movement of the early 1970s …
DVD Talk Collector Series THE MOVIE: Please Note: The images used here are from the 2004 DVD edition of the film and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. I wish there was a way to get my family to agree to making Fanny and Alexander our official selection for annual holiday viewing. Hell, I suppose I’d just be happy if we had something to watch together on either Thanksgiving or …
Highly Recommended If you’re just looking for a quick, eight-word review, I could probably get away with leaving it at this: Intruder totally lives up to its cover art. Okay, you know how Joe Bob Briggs coined the phrase “Spam in a Cabin” to describe one of the most tried and true horror formulas of the 1980s? Y’know, a gaggle of horny twentysomethings trot off to some hopelessly out-of-the-way …
Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are promotional stills provided by Kino Lorber and from other sources, and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. “Industrial continuity is ensured, whatever happens.” Lucas Belvaux’s cool, elegant Rapt is a timely enough thriller, involving as it does the kidnapping and ransoming of a high-rolling, cocky, jet-setting …