Highly Recommended Death Hunt (1981) was the last “serious” film of star Charles Bronson. The reliable supporting actor-turned-Euro-star found mainstream success in the U.S. with Death Wish (1974), then for the next several years mostly appeared in genre action-thrillers similar to those of box office rival Clint Eastwood
Recommended The Movie: Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni in 1961, La Notte follows a wealthy married couple, wife Lidia (Jeanne Moreau) and her husband, an author named Giovanni (Marcello Mastroianni), as they travel around their home city of Milan.
Rent It The Movie: Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson have done various things since they struck comedic and cinematic gold when they co-starred in the 2005 smash hit Wedding Crashers .
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Highly Recommended First released in Great Britain as Expos and in the United States as Trauma , the now-titled House on Straw Hill (1976) is an extremely minor, muddled erotic thriller with slight horror movie elements, and notable only as the lone British film on the original list of “Video Nasties” compiled by the Department of Public Prosecution. Severin Films’ new Blu-ray presents it …
Recommended A surprisingly risqu sex farce-musical starring Danny Kaye, Gene Tierney, and Corrine Calvet, On the Riveria (1951) was the second and at times word-for-word remake of Folies Berg re de Paris (1935), which starred Maurice Chevalier, Merle Oberon, and Ann Sothern in the same parts. The first remake, made in-between, was That Night in Rio (1941), with Don Ameche, Alice Faye, and Carmen …
Recommended THE FILM Please Note: The images used here are from promotional material provided by The Cohen Media Group and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. I’m prepared to accept that smart, crowd-pleasing French filmmaker Fran ois Ozon ( 8 Women , Swimming Pool ), whose work I’ve often enjoyed and appreciated, is middlebrow, a skilled and intelligent writer/director whose …
Rent It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Nicolas Winding Refn and Ryan Gosling re-team for Only God Forgives , a beautifully shot, vacuous and violent film about a drug dealer avenging his brother’s murder
Rent It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. I had only seen bits and pieces of Kevin Hart’s standup work on YouTube before viewing Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain , which presents his complete 2012 performance at Madison Square Garden. Hart uses the venue to riff on his recent divorce, worldwide tour, romantic relationships and everyday challenges as a newly …
Rent It THE FILM: The United States government has nearly eliminated crime and unemployment by implementing an annual 12-hour “purge,” during which time all crime is legal. This is a ridiculous yet intriguing premise for a film, and it begs a number of questions about human nature and social interaction.