Highly Recommended At Long Last Love (1975), unavailable for decades and regarded as one of the great cinematic calamities of the ’70s is, at long last, out on Blu-ray and available for reassessment. Ultimately, the picture doesn’t quite gel like it should, but neither is it anywhere near as bad as its reputation would suggest
Highly Recommended I was amazed at how well the trailer of Stoker was able to reel me in. Marketing campaigns typically only have the ability to make me say yay or nay, but this time, I actually found myself intrigued on a much deeper level. There were flashes that indicated a tense love triangle would revolve around a man seducing both mother and daughter – The former a reflection of what …
Recommended The Movie: The directorial debut of Eric Red (who also wrote), 1989’s Cohen And Tate begins at a farm, looking as serene and peaceful as you’d expect, except for the armed guards surrounding the house.
Rent It The Movie: Talk about non-truth in advertising. When the advance trailer for Upside Down first turned up online, its parade of eye-popping imagery promised a moody and enigmatic, Inception -like immersive experience. While there was a lot of potential in this tale of young lovers separated by planets having opposing gravity pulls, the facile romance at the film’s core brings to mind the …
Skip It In 10 Words or Less An all-star sketch comedy mess Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Sketch movies, Emma Stone Likes: Many of this film’s stars Dislikes: Potty humor Hates: Lazy filmmaking The Movie You know that thing where when a kid does something wrong, and the parent says “I’m not mad. I’m just disappointed”
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Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution.
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Highly Recommended THE FILM Please Note: The images used here are from stills provided by Sony Pictures Classics and visuals from other promotional sources; are not taken from the current Blu-ray edition under review; and are generally not representative of the intentionally videotape-level quality of the film’s actual look. If the hugely successful (artistically and popularly) Mad Men mines …
Highly Recommended It’s been a long, uphill battle, but we’ve almost reached the point where I no longer have “Adventure Time”-related home video complaints! After last-year’s release of The Complete First Season on DVD, Cartoon Network has finally decided to take the show high-def by upgrading that season to Blu-Ray (check out Adam Tyner’s review of that release here ) and offering The Complete …