Highly Recommended Please Note: The screen shots used here are taken from the DVD portion of Chaplin's Mutual Comedies. The Movies: Like The Beatles in 1964 or Michael Jackson in 1983, Chaplin's Mutual Comedies 1916-17 gives you Charlie Chaplin, Pop Culture Icon at the peak of his popularity.
Rent It The Movie: At only 31 years of age, director Drake Doremus already has four features under his belt. He has proven himself to be a prolific young American filmmaker. His 2011 effort Like Crazy , unseen by me, made a minor splash as a romance that supposedly didn't condescend to its youth demographic and presented young characters who were smarter and more layered than the usual Nicholas …
Highly Recommended Fed Up is director Stephanie Soechtig's second documentary following 2009's Tapped , which examined the production of bottled water and its disastrous effects on regional water supplies. Not surprisingly, it was an unapologetic, one-sided affair that aggressively attacked corporations bent on putting short-term profits ahead of long-term sustainability. Though it didn't always …
Highly Recommended Where's the love for Stanley Kramer? Dismissed for half a century as a minimally talented producer-director of “message pictures,” Kramer is long overdue for a major reappraisal. As a producer he made some of the finest films of the late 1940s through the mid- 50s: Champion , Home of the Brave (both 1949), The Men (1950), High Noon (1952), The Wild One (1953), The Caine Mutiny …
Recommended On My Way ( Elle s'en va , 2013) is an engrossing French humanist drama starring Catherine Deneuve as a 60-something former beauty queen forced to confront estranged family relationships and her own general unhappiness when on a whim she abandons her livelihood and takes to the road. Directed by actress Emmanuelle Bercot ( Cl ment ) the deliberately paced film proves an ideal vehicle …
Recommended The Movie: Written and directed by Ti West (he of House Of The Devil and The Innkeepers fame) and very clearly influenced by the Jim Jones/People's Temple mass murder, 2013's The Sacrament introduces us to Patrick (Kentucker Audley), a photographer. His sister, Caroline (Amy Seimetz), had some drug addiction issues in the past but since getting out of rehab has found a new start at …
On Aug. 16, 2014, DVDFab Media Player, the industry leader when it comes to Blu-ray playback solutions, updated its entire product line, including the Windows version, adding the overall support to play back HEVC , UHD and 4K videos.
Highly Recommended Muppets Most Wanted Blu-ray Review The world is abetter place because of The Muppets .These characters are ones that bring smiles, joy, and wonderment to theworld throughthese imaginative, fun, and energetic characters. For a while it seemedas thoughthe series and the wonderful characters that make it so awesome weregoing to disappearoff the charts as it had been so many years …
Star Wars purists may have their prayers to The Force answered when a remastered set of the original trilogy without George Lucas' irksome additions is released on Blu-ray.