Highly Recommended It’s a shame that Jesse James (1939), Fox’s big Technicolor Western starring Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, and Randolph Scott, is remembered for its historical inaccuracies and for one notorious scene of alleged animal abuse than for the movie itself. That’s because the movie, for the most part, is excellent, in some respects way ahead of its time
DVD Talk Collector Series Conventional wisdom used to be that the only good Spaghetti Westerns were the five directed by Sergio Leone: Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966), Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), and Duck, You Sucker! (1971). But over the last several decades, film historians including Sir Christopher Frayling began …
Recommended The Movie: For whatever reason there seems to be a fascination with Appalachia, or on a broader level the flyover country of between both American coasts, which produces fascinating results in entertainment. Whether it is A Simple Plan in past years or presently on television in Justified , the slang, customs and practices of folks in this culture onto itself remains curious through …
Recommended Although I hadn’t seen any episodes of “Duck Dynasty” prior to receiving this Blu-Ray set, I couldn’t get through too many days without hearing its name or seeing pictures of one or more of the bearded guys associated with it. Lionsgate has now released a mammoth six-disc Blu-Ray collection of the show’s first 41 episodes, more than enough to get anyone acquainted with it. My first …
Highly Recommended Director Richard Lester’s Royal Flash (1975) was a relatively late-comer to DVD, being released by Twentieth Century-Fox Home Entertainment in 2007, full of extra features and a fine video transfer, but all but dumped onto the marketplace with little-to-no fanfare.
Recommended The Beast Within (1982) is a pretty terrible, at times unsavory, but slickly made horror film with an especially good cast of character actors. You might not recognize Ronny Cox, Bibi Besch, Don Gordon, R.G
Recommended The Movie: Written and directed by Paul Schrader, the 1982 remake of Jacques Tourner’s 1942 picture Cat People definitely takes things in its own direction, in fact there really aren’t a whole lot of similarities between the two outside of the basic concept. This more modern take introduces us to a beautiful young woman named Irene Gallier (Nastassia Kinski) whose adoptive parents …
Rent It THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. When I worked at an indie video store some time ago, a customer once told me, “The more famous people in a movie you’ve never heard of, the less chance it has to be good.” Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Jane Mansfield’s Car , actor Billy Bob …
Recommended Johann (Bobby Sommer) is a security guard in the Kunsthistorisches Art Museum in Vienna. Once a rock-and-roll tour manager, Johann has started to look for peace and quiet in his old age, and the museum provides everything he could want: an opportunity for serenity, an opportunity to observe the artwork, and an opportunity to observe the people who come in to do the same thing
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Nearly a decade after The Chronicles of Riddick underwhelmed audiences and critics, Director David Twohy and star Vin Diesel are back with a new off-world adventure for the popular antihero Riddick. This second sequel to Pitch Black returns to the moderate budget filmmaking that made that film successful, and …