Recommended THE FILM: While Curse of Chucky shares a director – Don Mancini – with Seed of Chucky , the previous sequel in the Child’s Play series, it mostly drops the black humor of that film in favor of returning to the franchise’s horror roots. This direct-to-video sequel is actually much better than expected, and it moves the story forward in an interesting way. Chucky (voiced by Brad Dourif …
Rent It The good [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] news…? Blue Underground is back! The bad news…? Um, Snuff
Highly Recommended The Film : In Sound of My Voice and Another Earth , writer/actress Brit Marling and her creative teams focused on fairly abstract emotional topics and themes, from how a cult community manipulates new recruits to how mourning the death of a loved one interacts with the existence of an “alternate reality”. Both are smart, boundary-testing challenges that operating in …
Recommended Well, we’ve got the third “Monster High” release within a year, and the first one to be given the honor of a Blu-Ray release. For the uninitiated, “Monster High” is a line of toys, animated specials and other merchandise for kids (whom I earlier jokingly referred to as “Goth girls-in-training”).
Skip It To the less-attentive viewer, Sisters & Brothers might seem like a complete and fully-formed movie, but it’s merely an optical illusion created by the film’s talented cast. At least six of the film’s ten central performers manage to lift impressive amounts of genuine emotion out of director / writer Carl Bessai’s scattershot, clumsy screenplay, infusing a number of scenes with a sense of …
Recommended “Space Junk,” made for IMAX theatres, presents us with a growing problem that hasn’t gotten a lot of attention (although it was the subject of an early song by Devo with the same name but not included here): Just what happens to satellites orbiting the Earth after they’ve outlived their usefulness? It turns out that many of them just stay there, some for several decades after they’ve …
Recommended A minor but reasonably entertaining action-thriller, Escape from Zahrain (1962) is a quirky little picture. Its small cast is a strange mix of actors while its screenplay is unusually unambitious for producer-director Ronald Neame, who had just made two outstanding British features, The Horse’s Mouth (1958) and especially Tunes of Glory (1960), Neame’s masterpiece.
Recommended The Movies: The Amityville Horror , directed by Stuart Rosenberg for the late, lamented AIP and released through MGM, is pretty well established as one of the more popular seventies supernatural films and stands as a picture with a sizeable fan base. It did well enough to inspire quite a few sequels, all of which vary pretty widely in terms of quality
Recommended The Movie: In retrospect, seeing the trailer for Crash ahead of the Disconnect Blu-ray was something that may have clued me in to what the latter was going to be about. And in what could serve as a fitting bookend to the former, the latter was an intriguing prospect, with several interwoven storylines and familiar faces in them to help move things along
Highly Recommended Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Originally shot to ride the masked-killer coattails of Halloween , Sean S. Cunningham’s Friday the 13th was a surprise hit for distributor Paramount and sparked a legacy of sequels, merchandise and Camp Crystal L..