Skip It THE FILM: Spike Lee goes director-for-hire in Oldboy , a handsomely shot, nicely acted but ultimately perfunctory remake of Park Chan-wook’s 2003 Korean gut-punch. Josh Brolin is the man imprisoned in a room for twenty years before being released to track down his tormentor
Skip It There is a persistent notion in the world, led by the terrible term “chick flick”, that men can’t or won’t enjoy a romantic comedy. Guys like action, girls like romance. This is, of course, dumb and untrue
Recommended Before I begin discussing this 3D Blu-Ray release, I should first tell you that it is actually an Americanized version of the British IMAX movie Penguins 3D .
Highly Recommended The Movies: Kino bundles together four of their previously released special edition Blu-ray releases of Jean Rollin’s cinematic oddities, reissuing them as a boxed set under the banner The Cinema Of Jean Rollin: The Vampire Collection . The discs in this set are identical to the previously released individual film releases that came out a couple of years ago, but this is still …
Recommended Although the calendar might have already flipped to the 1970s, culture was still pretty much still in the spirit of the late 60s before giving way to the excesses of corporate rock and disco that were to come later in the decade. On the heels of the legendary 1969 Woodstock music festival, promoter Ken Walker had an idea for a festival further north in Canada. He chartered a train …
Recommended Franck Adrien (Albert Dupontel) is just a few weeks away from the end of his prison sentence for bank robbery. Not only is he looking forward to returning home to his beautiful wife, Anna (Caterina Murino) and lovely daughter, Amelie (Jaia Caltagirone), but he’s also got the haul from the robbery stashed away, which the police are still interested in finding. His cellmate, Jean-Louis …
DVD Talk Collector Series The Movie: Years of parody and homage and outright emulation have done little to dim the magnificence of Fran ois Truffaut’s third feature film, Jules and Jim .
Recommended When an Egyptian army, led by British troops, falls for a trap in the Sudanese desert and is brutally murdered, it presents a major problem for British Prime Minister William Gladstone (Ralph Richardson). The Sudan is a protectorate of the UK, and they are obligated to help the people there, especially considering the battle helped arm the attackers, a group of Muslim zealots led by …
Recommended Historical war films aren’t usually my cup of tea, unless they cover events that haven’t been done to death already. Cy Endfield’s Zulu (1964) fits the bill by dropping us smack in the beginning of the Anglo-Zulu War circa January 1879, as we see a conflict between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom develops in south-eastern Africa. In particular, Zulu recounts the Battle of …
Highly Recommended The Movie: Even though About Time ‘s key conceit is that lanky ginger Tim (Domhnall Gleeson, Brendan’s boy) has inherited from his father (the perpetually awesome Bill Nighy) the ability to travel back in time to previously lived moments in his life and change them as he sees fit, writer-director Richard Curtis ( Love Actually , Notting Hill ) is not all that interested in …