Skip It Che! Blu-ray Review Director Richard Fleischer's Che! ( Tora! Tora!Tora! ) is probably best left forgotten. The concept of thefilm is tofocus upon revolution leader Che Guevara during the period of Che'sarrival inCuba during the mid-1950's to his death following an ambush in 1967.The storyis partially told as a dramatic narrative with some emphasis onshowcasingparts of the Cuban …
Recommended I didn't much care for Run Silent Run Deep (1958) when I first saw it during the early days of DVD. Part of the problem was MGM's unimpressive video transfer, which was in unenhanced 1.66:1 widescreen.
Recommended THE FILM: After the monstrous success of his first Transformers trilogy, Hollywood outlaw Michael Bay parted ways with star Shia Labeouf and began a new chapter in his franchise, dialing back the explosive action and addressing the pacing and character development issues that plagued the three earlier films. Just kidding! Transformers: Age of Extinction delivers the Bay-hem in spades …
Recommended The Movie: Gary Cooper stars in 1951's sort-of-western (southeastern?) Distant Drums , an independently produced action thriller that plops a small group of soldiers in the middle of the Florida Everglades during the Second Seminole War. Forced to cope with the harsh swamp, while dodging hungry gators and murderous Seminoles, the soldiers trudge their way back to their ship after …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Jeremy Gardner's post-apocalyptic The Battery is a good movie without qualifiers, but it is a pretty great movie when you consider the budget is only $6,000.
Highly Recommended The Originals Season 1 Blu-ray Review The Originals is a spin-off series baseduponcharacters created and introduced in The Vampire Diaries , andit is acreation of writer Julie Plec, who is the head-writer and showrunner ofbothseries. The concept of the show revolves around a group of charactersreferredto as being the 'originals' – i.e.
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the standard-definition DVD included in the retail package, not the Blu-ray edition under review. It's wonderful how a good movie can sometimes turn a night around. I have to remind myself of that sometimes.
Recommended Stagefright: Michelle Soavi's Stagefright , perennial also-ran of Italian horror, makes its Blu-ray debut, courtesy of the fine folks at Blue Underground, those who won't rest until they've gotten us all up to date on everything exploitation. Soavi's whodunit slasher opus trades heavily on atmosphere to deliver some gory goods and lots of stylish tension.
Skip It The Movie: Did you ever play this game with your friends as a child? You and your buddies sit around in a circle, each of you write a paragraph of a short story, fold it, then another kid writes the next paragraph without seeing what comes before it.
Skip It The Movie: Very Good Girls is a feature-length soap opera full of characters devoid of any depth or personality, occupying a meandering, unfocused screenplay without anything of value to say.