Rent It The Film: Would the movie-going public even be enthusiastic about a live-action rendition of Sleeping Beauty without the perfectly-cast Angelina Jolie donning the horns, the slinky black dress, and the pearly-white grin of Maleficent? Perhaps, but given the lukewarm climate created by the reimagined tales of Snow White and Huntsman and Jack and the Giant Slayer , as well as Disney's …
Recommended So a girl and boy meet one another and fall desperately in love, except they're on different landscapes with opposing gravity that meets somewhere in the middle. If the plot of Yasuhiro Yoshiura's Patema Inverted (2013) sounds a little familiar, it's due to the the not-so-well-received Upside Down (2012), an effects-heavy live action film starring Jim Sturgess and Kristen Dunst …
Rent It The Movie: In this latest directorial effort from Brian Trenchard-Smith (the man who gave us Stunt Rock and Escape 2000 among plenty of other Ozlpoitation classics!), Thomas Jane plays Peter Roberts, a former race car driver who has given all of that up for the quiet life. He now makes his living as a driving instructor.
Rent It The Movie: Chinese Puzzle is the third part in a series of ensemble relationship dramedies about the close-knit relationships between an eclectic group of characters from all over Europe. Their steamy adventures began with L'Auberge Espagnole , a hit in Europe in 2002, where they hooked up while living together in a small apartment in Barcelona. 2005's Russian Dolls picked up the stories …
DVD Talk Collector Series Well this is a treat! As a movie, Dragonfly Squadron (1954) is fairly ordinary, a war movie with a familiar story and genre stereotypes: hardline, humorless commanding officer; sly second-in-command, subordinate with a personal grudge against his commanding officer, a woman emotionally torn between the dedicated, self-sacrificing doctor she married and the commanding …
Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less “Weird Al”'s cinematic highlight Reviewer's Bias* Loves: “Weird Al” Yankovic, UHF Likes: Sketch films Dislikes: Anniversary editions light on new content Hates: The disappearance of low-budget UHF stations The Story So Far… UHF was released on DVD in June of 2002, and DVDTalk has a review of that release . The Movie Though at first glance it makes little …
Rent It Not to be confused with Renny Harlin's The Legend of Hercules —and don't worry, it probably won't be—Brett Ratner's Hercules (2014) is yet another sword-and-sandal epic featuring brave warriors facing off against nigh-unstoppable evil forces.
Highly Recommended The Movie: It's beyond a doubt that Dog Day Afternoon is a timeless masterpiece that revolutionized the bank robbery genre and is one of the most important works of 70s American cinema, thought by many, myself included, to be the greatest period in film history. Considering Sidney Lumet is one of my top five favorite directors and Dog Day Afternoon is my second favorite film …
Recommended The Movie: Made two years after the seminal Re-Animator and once again produced by Charles Band and Empire Pictures, Stuart Gordon's Dolls is part horror movie, part black comedy and part fairy tale and while it does tend to lean towards the clich s often associated with horror films, that doesn't diminish the film's entertainment value.
Highly Recommended The success of the James Bond movies, Thunderball (1965) particularly, launched a worldwide spy movie craze that lasted about five years and resulted in probably close to 200 knock-offs. Although several very good spy movies were made around this time, notably The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1965) and The Quiller Memorandum (1966), the vast majority, including the two Derek …