Recommended The Film Web Series: Assassin’s Creed: Lineage isn’t being marketed properly. There’s really no way of getting around it: claiming that it’s “the movie prequel” to the wildly popular videogame series misleads those who glance over the cover, since the main feature only takes up about thirty-five (35) minutes — even though the back of the packaging insists that it’s two-and-a-half …
Recommended THE SHOW: Please Note: The images here are from the standard DVD release, not the Blu-Ray currently under review. . Yeah, that’s right
Rent It “I am at war — against ill winds, contrary currents, and incompetent officers. You’d best join my war, Mr.
DVD Talk Collector Series The Movie: When I first saw the Yankeeography series of episodes a couple of years ago, I was less than underwhelmed, and thought the series could have used a bit more depth. Apparently I was heard in this regard, because this new set, titled Yankeeography Collector’s Edition Megaset , is all that and the proverbial bag of chips. The New York Yankees are not only at the …
Highly Recommended THE PROGRAM: Please Note: The images used here are promotional stills and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. There are many cinematic points of reference that could be brought to bear on Billy Budd , the 1948 opera (adapted from Herman Melville’s novella) by composer Benjamin Britten, novelist/librettist E.M. Forster, and frequent Britten collaborator Eric …
Skip It THE MOVIE: Please Note: The images used here are from the standard definition DVD included with the Blu-Ray and not from the Blu-Ray itself. Woodrow and Aiden grew up together in Wisconsin, obsessing over their Mad Max VHS and dreaming of how they’d survive the apocalypse.
Highly 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. Jean-Claude (Gerard Depardieu, young and Byronesquely sexy like he was in Ma tresse ) and Pierrot (Patrick Dewaere) are very, very naughty boys. One would not put it so innocuously (the two are overgrown …
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The images used here are promotional stills and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. From Ang Lee’s urbane but serious-minded portrait of the 1970s, The Ice Storm , to Richard Linklater’s openly comic and lovingly mocking take on the same, Dazed & Confused
Highly Recommended There’s no flashy, boisterous computer animation. No overcranked, hypercaffeinated sensory overload. No stuntcasting for voices just so Disney could put a [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] famous name in big, bold letters on the poster.
Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The images used here are from the standard definition DVD included with the Blu-Ray and not from the Blu-Ray itself. What if Santa Claus were real, but instead of being the kindly old gentleman you see on greeting cards, he’s really a horned devil who comes and steals naughty children for punishment? This is the Santa that the little boy Pietari (Onni Tomilla …