Recommended In 2013, Olive Films released John Ford's The Quiet Man on Blu-ray for its 50th Anniversary, complete with a beautiful new restoration (DVDTalk has a review of that disc here ). Although the presentation was impeccable and the set came with a lengthy booklet, the one area where it came up a bit short was in the supplement department, offering only a previously released 25-minute …
Recommended THE FILM: Ah, My Girl . A film I remember really liking when I was 11. Now that I am pushing 30, some of its charms have worn off, though it remains a decent coming-of-age story
Rent It The Movie: Directed by Mick Jackson from a script by James Hicks, 1990's Chattahoochee is based on the true story' of Emmett Foley, played in the film by Gary Oldman.
DVD Talk Collector Series The Connection (1961) is a historically significant if very stagey and virtually unreleased feature directed and edited by independent experimental filmmaker Shirley Clarke (1919-1997). An adaptation of Jack Gelber's 1959 Obie-winning play, the entire story takes place in a grungy New York loft – there are no exteriors and no other sets – where junkies, including jazz …
Highly Recommended The Movie: 1975's Love and Death is probably the oddest film of Woody Allen's “early funny ones,” but, pound for pound, it is also probably the funniest. Set in Russia during the Napoleonic Wars, Love and Death features a smorgasbord of smarty-pants riffs on philosophy, literature, and cinema, Marxian (as in Groucho) double-talk, and slapstick setpieces that rival the work of …
Rent It The Movie: Albert Pyun is best known for directing action and sci-fi pictures like Cyborg with Jean Claude Van Damme but in 1986 he made Dangerously Close , a strange tale of youth gone wild. It's a strange film to be sure, one that seems far more concerned with technique and style than with narrative substance, but it's an interesting film to revisit almost thirty years after it debuted …
Recommended Olive Films' concurrent Blu-ray release of Roger Corman's The Wild Angels (1966) unexpectedly turned this reviewer's opinion around, from what had been perceived as a merely shrewd if laughable exploitation picture to something far more influential and artful. The same can't be said of Richard Rush's Psych-Out (1968), another AIP feature geared for the drive-in market.
Recommended The Movie: Directed by Roger Corman in 1962 after finding some serious box office success with earlier Edgar Allan Poe adaptations, Tales Of Terror takes on three of the renowned author's short stories.
Recommended The Movie: Robert Englund has had a storied career in film, and has the star power still to carry a movie, in horror circles at least. So it's too bad that one of his recent ventures, Fear Clinic , is only a fair horror film. Englund deserves greatness.