Mad Max , the sci-fi franchise that introduced Mel Gibson to the world, will come together for the first time as a Blu-ray collection when Warner Bros.
Highly Recommended Anna Karenina is the latest adaptation to be filmed of Leo Tolstoy’s classic and acclaimed novel. This time around the film auteur and director bringing it all together for the big-screen is none other than the spectacularly gifted Joe Wright ( Pride and Prejudice , Atonement ), who brings with him an unusual and unique approach to the source material by turning it into …
DVD Talk Collector Series THE FILM Please Note: The images used here are taken from the 2005 DVD edition , not the Blu-ray disc under review. The opening credits of Otto Preminger’s Laura come up over an instantly captivating, then eternally unforgettable piece of cinematic iconography: A painted portrait of the title character (Gene Tierney, whom the film’s producer, Fox’s (in)famous Darryl F …
Frankenweenie, from the science teacher who resembles Vincent Price to the Stepford Wives-looking suburban neighbourhood, is the closest in spirit to Tim Burton’s 1990 masterpiece Edward Scissorhands.
A pair of Oscar nominees that are still in local theaters lead these movies on home video this week.
The classic Disney animated version of “Peter Pan†and Barbra Streisand’s reworking of “A Star Is…
There are a few hidden gems in this week’s DVD releases.
Highly Recommended THE FILM I must confess to never having seen director Joseph Losey’s mid-career debacles (or masterpieces; depends on whose take you listen to) Modesty Blaise (1966) or Boom! (1968), but judging from what I’ve read and heard regarding those films, Losey — an expat German who fled the Nazis and made films in the U.S., the U.K., and France over a long and unusually varied …
DC’s latest animated film Superman: Unbound will be released on May 7 on DVD, Blu-ray and digital download, and we’ve received word on the exclusive Blu-ray features for the film.
Recommended Like Network and several other films before and since, Paul Michael Glaser’s The Running Man (1987) seemed far-fetched decades ago…but it hits a little closer to home these days.