Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. Serge Bourguignon's Sundays and Cyb le , a 1962 drama that went on to win the Best Foreign Language Oscar the following year, is a unique movie. The only other film it brings to mind is Ren Cl ment's Forbidden Games , the tale of two young …
Rent It The Movie: A grimy tale of corrupt grave robbers run amok in 19th century Scotland, 1985's atmospheric thriller The Doctor and the Devils was one of the non-comedy films executive produced by comedic legend Mel Brooks. Though (justifiably) not as well-regarded as Brooks' other not-funny producing ventures The Elephant Man and The Fly , this moody, impressively cast movie nevertheless has …
Rent It I first saw Sergio Corbucci's Compa eros (1970) when it was part of a five-movie DVD boxed set called Once Upon a Time in Italy , released ten-odd years ago by Anchor Bay. Despite its reputation among Spaghetti Western buffs, I found the picture less interesting than three of the other titles in the set ( A Bullet for the General , Four of the Apocalypse , and Keoma ).
Recommended The Movie: The third and final part of Sion Sono's so-called Hate Trilogy (preceded by the film's Love Exposure and then Cold Fish , both of which are definitely recommended for fans of this director's outsider filmography), 2011's Guilty of Romance debuts on Blu-ray in North America for the first time thanks to Olive Films.
Rent It Content: If movies have taught us anything, it's that you don't take a bag of money you happen to come across, especially when the amount is in the hundreds of thousands, because come on… it HAS to belong to corrupt people that are willing to do anything to get it back, only bad things come of it. Greed is the moral of Good People , an ultimately disappointing thriller film based off …
Highly Recommended Nekromantik: It's hard to fathom how desensitized I've become in the last 20-plus years. Way back in 1991 a little video store opened up in SE Portland, Oregon. It's since become an institution, but in those days Mike Clark's Movie Madness had the movies you couldn't find ANYWHERE.
Recommended The Movie: 1981's True Confessions is one of those many films that has tremendous talent involved (both behind and in front of the camera), was pretty well-received upon release (though not exactly a hit), and still has managed to drift into obscurity. It's not a lost masterpiece, but True Confessions is a welcome time capsule of an era where character-driven dramas could still be …
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Recommended When Meteor was new, in October 1979, I dragged several friends to see it, expecting something intelligent and full of spectacle. A science fiction-disaster film, it was, unusual for the time, rooted in sound science.
Highly Recommended Note : Although screencaps should only be considered an idea of what the disc looks like, click any capture in this review to expand the image to a full size .png. Writing a review of Obvious Child presents some obvious topics. Maybe I could focus on how the film is about a woman, and is written, directed, and produced by women as well, perspective that gives this charming and …