Safe House (Blu-ray)
Recommended THE MOVIE: Denzel Washington has chosen an odd specialty at this point in his career, a juncture at which he can basically do anything.
May 25, 2012
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Recommended THE MOVIE: Denzel Washington has chosen an odd specialty at this point in his career, a juncture at which he can basically do anything.
Rent It THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are promotional stills from the film’s release and are not taken from Blu-ray edition under review.
Recommended The Movie: Littlerock is the story of Rintaro (Rintaro Sawamoto) and Atsuko (Atsuko Okatsuka), siblings from Japan, on their way to San Francisco.
Highly Recommended Directing and writing debuts are rarely as successful as Being John Malkovich (1999), which brought filmmaker Spike Jonze and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman into the public eye. Years before, the former cut his teeth on some of the decade’s best music videos , while the latter scribbled behind the scenes of several sketch comedy shows (including Chris Elliott’s underrated Get A …
Highly Recommended Don Juan Demarco Review Iwanted to begin thisreview with a slant on how Don Juan Demarco is that rareexception tothe rule; a genuinely surprising and satisfying romantic comedy. Butit’s tooaffecting and whimsical to merely be referred to alongside the likes ofschlocklike Fool’s Gold (2008), Alex and Emma (2003), and FailuretoLaunch (2006). Okay, so I technically just did …
Rent It The movie’s called Underworld: Awakening and all that, so why does it keep putting me to sleep? That’s kind of the weird thing about this fourth — fourth! — installment in the vampires-in-this-corner-werewolves-in-the-other franchise. If you asked me to rattle off a laundry list of all the stuff Read the entire review
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. I’ve never been entirely convinced that the kind of stubbornly purist realism propounded and practiced by the late John Cassavetes is as pure and effective as the often great , sometimes crackpot Mr. Cassavetes seemed to believe; it’s touching but na ve, it …
Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional stills, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Rent It As part of its 100th Anniversary Collector’s Series of Blu-ray titles, Universal is releasing Buck Privates (1941), Abbott & Costello’s first starring feature, and the movie that their fueled their rocket-like ascent to the top of the box office heap in the early-1940s. Spurred by the peacetime draft in the year preceding the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Buck Privates is a truly …
Recommended The Movies: First things first – those of you who already own the recent director’s cut Blu-ray release of Mimic ? The first disc in this two disc set which compiles the three films in the series is identical to that release outside of the cover art