Recommended Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. The Movie: World War II actioner, psychological drama, buddy flick, progressive if overly earnest “message picture” – 1949’s Home of the Brave juggles several things at once. It hasn’t lost its potency, however, in dealing with racism-induced guilt and shame …
Highly Recommended Il Sorpasso Blu Review Il Sorpasso is regarded as one of thefinest of allItalian comedies. Released in 1962, the film was first put intotheaters withlittle fanfare and box-office expectations. The film quickly became anincredible success based on audiences reactions and word of mouth thatthe filmwas something special
Recommended The Movie: Just in time for the 20th anniversary of the character’s first appearance (way back in John Byrne’s Next Men #21 unless you count San Diego Comic-Con Comics #2 , which was Dark Horse Comics’ comic con exclusive released in August 1993), Anchor Bay has reissued the two animated features that were first unleased on Blu-ray in 2007. This seems, however, to basically be the …
Recommended One of a series of Blu-ray double-feature releases from Sony, Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. (2003) and Godzilla: Final Wars (2004) are the last Japanese-made Godzilla movies to date, possibly ever
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Rent It THE FILM: There is little to distinguish Bachelor Party from the horde of 1980s crude comedies except one thing, and it is a doozy: Tom Hanks. Fresh off the success of Splash , Hanks joined a cast of relatively unknowns in Director Neal Israel’s low-budget comedy that is surprisingly light on laughs. If anything, Bachelor Party is an interesting time capsule, and Hanks manages to inject …
Skip It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Michael Caine is the star of the original 1971 Get Carter and stars in this 2000 remake with Sylvester Stallone in the lead as mob enforcer Jack Carter. The original was gritty and exciting; this one not so much.
Recommended The Movie: Written and directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet and released theatrically in 1970, Eden And After is one of the stranger films in the filmmaker’s already bizarre filmography. The beginning of the film is centered around the appropriately titled Eden Caf , a coffee house that attracts a crowd of art students who seem to appreciate its anti-social sensibilities
Rent It The Movie: Growing up in a household where my father enjoyed more than several films and miniseries of the Civil War era, I feel somewhat vaccinated to films of the period and even will occasionally watch Gods and Generals or Gettysburg when they appear on television. In addition, for whatever reason when I heard the person responsible for those movies did a made for television third …
Skip It Less than a year ago, Acorn collected the first two “Jack Irish” telemovies into a Blu-Ray set. The films, based on the books by author Peter Temple, followed Irish (Guy Pearce) as he slowly shifts from being a fancy criminal attorney to being a private investigator, while recovering from the murder of his wife, Isabel.