Chinatown (Blu-ray)
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from promotional materials and the 2009 DVD release , not the Blu-ray edition under review.
March 26, 2012
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Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from promotional materials and the 2009 DVD release , not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Rent It THE FILM: Whitney Houston’s first acting role was a good fit: She played international music and film superstar Rachel Marron, a vulnerable diva whose life was threatened by a crazed fan, alongside Kevin Costner as her tireless protector in Director Mick Jackson’s The Bodyguard . Critics were not kind to the film, but it raked in over $400 million in worldwide receipts and its soundtrack …
DVD Talk Collector Series 2011 was, unquestionably, a fantastic year for fans of classic cinema.
Recommended The Film: Kathryn Stockett wrote her wildly-popular novel The Help as a way of fondly remembering the black women who helped raise her, and her close friend, director Tate Taylor, during and after the civil rights surge in the ’60s (and ’70s). Taylor obviously gets the fondness that Stockett crams into her book, because his film version follows a similar tone. While it’s still a …
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
Highly Recommended As sometimes happens, I’m reviewing the British (and Irish) mystery series George Gently (2007-present) out of sequence. I examined Series 2 , a DVD release, in May 2010, and then took a gander at Series 3 , on Blu-ray, in June 2011
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.
Recommended Would you believe the directors responsible for the likes of Nutty Professor II, Twilight – New Moon, See This Movie , and Little Fockers could have been responsible for delivering one of the best comedies the 90’s had to offer?