Recommended The Blacklist (2013- ) is NBC's other series about a charming, well-dressed criminal working with a young, gifted member of the FBI to stop gruesome crimes while secretly harboring ulterior motives…but hey, who's counting? This marks the first developed TV production from screenwriter Jon Bokenkamp ( Taking Lives ) and, aside from glaring similarities to Thoma… Read the entire …
DVD Talk Collector Series Content: I was primarily an anime fan back in the mid 90's to the early 2000's, watching titles like Cowboy Bebop, Dragon Ball Z, The Big O and Trigun .
When Walt Disney opens the vault, film aficionados, collectors, and parents usually take note. Now mix that with releasing titles on Blu-ray for the first time and Mania cannot just look away. Today Disney is releasing, for the first time on Blu-ray: TARZAN , …
Recommended The Movie: Directed by Greydon Clark, 1980's Without Warning starts out with a great opening scene in which a middle aged hunting enthusiast (Cameron Mitchell) and his slacker/hippie son (Darby Hinton) are wandering the desert where they're quickly dispatched by weird jellyfish-like flying discs that zip through the air and attach themselves to their backs. Shortly after that, a Boy …
Recommended The Film: As some modern movie adaptations of popular young-adult books elevate expectations of what they're capable of, there are a slate of recent others — from The Mortal Instruments to The Host and Percy Jackson — that serve as a reminder of the turbulence still plaguing the subgenre. Despite Hollywood's progress in the halls of Hogwarts and the districts of Panem, there's …
Highly Recommended Politically speaking, Lewis Milestone's The North Star (1943) makes for fascinating viewing. Dramatically, however, it's more than a little ridiculous
Recommended Yeah, yeah, everybody knows that you don't have to trek all the way down to Texas for a chainsaw massacre. What you didn't know is that you can get the Sawyers' same flavor of cannibalistic finger food closer to home too. [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] Read the entire review
Skip It Monster High Clawesome Double Feature: As the father of an 8-year-old girl, I've seen the monsters at Monster High peering over my shoulder for some time now. There they are, just a few aisles down from My Little Pony , across the way from Barbie, sneering at the endlessly rotating cycle of Justin Bieber/Zac Effron/One Direction merch. While I hate the way toys are marketed to girls and …
Rent It THE FILM: Fading Gigolo is the fifth film directed by John Turturro, who has north of 75 acting roles to his credit. Turturro stars here, too, along with Woody Allen, and it seems the tables have turned for the senior lead. This story of a failed bookstore owner who begins pimping out his friend to aging socialites feels like something Allen might have directed, but the role is his first …
Marvel and Disney love to wet our appetite for their upcoming home releases. Since Captain America: The Winter Solider arrives on HD Digital August 19th and on Blu-ray September 9th, which almost feels like an eternity, the studios have released the first special feature. Here is the Blooper Reel (at the bottom) packed with laughs and smiles…