Imagine you get the keys to the Alien franchise and are expected to follow in the foot steps of Ridley Scott and James Cameron. The end result did not leave David Fincher a happy man nor was he thrilled to be a part of Hollywood.
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from the 2006 standard-definition DVD release, not the Blu-ray edition under review. Robert Aldrich’s 1962 classic What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? has a reputation that precedes it, for better and worse.
Recommended Clunky, derivative, and sentimental, but also well-intentioned and visually sumptuous, Enemy Mine (1985) is a real mixed bag of ideas, a fusing of themes from the far-superior Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964) and the equally muddled and obvious Hell in the Pacific (1968). It’s hard to completely dislike this sincere plea for racial and religious tolerance, but except for its …
Rent It THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the bonus DVD included in this combo, not the Blu-ray edition under review. This might get me branded as some kind of sicko, but for a movie that apparently was almost rated NC-17, Chained is rather tame, at least in terms of onscreen gore. Lots of terrible things happen in the movie, but director Jennifer Lynch ( Boxing Helena …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. After leaving a screening of Magic Mike , I was hustling toward the parking lot when I ran into a fairly conservative friend from high school. After we exchanged pleasantries, the inevitable happened: “What did you see?” he said
Rent It The Film: The details of Edgar Allan Poe’s death are vague and bizarre: muttering names of unknown people, wearing clothes that weren’t his, and exhibiting grave distress without the ability to coherently explain why, a lot’s left to interpretation about what led up to the brooding poet’s demise on the streets of Baltimore. So, naturally, in an era where Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy …
Recommended Once upon a time in a land far, far away, there was a newborn baby girl named Ella. Usually in these sorts of stories, the fairy godmother doesn’t show up for a few chapters, but Lucinda (Vivica A
Rent It The Movie: “It turned out to be a wacky, impromptu romp that puzzled a few people at the time but as the years have gone by it now stands as a fond reminder of that period in our lives.” -Paul McCartney, from the accompanying booklet Magical Mystery Tour was a film project produced and directed by The Beatles (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr) themselves, from …
Pioneer announced a new Blu-ray drive this week. The BDR-2208 will be the fastest drive available on the market—an internal 15x Blu-ray burner—and offers small businesses a cost-effective means of backing up and archiving important data.