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Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Steven Soderbergh claims he is retiring from directing this year
May 18, 2013
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Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Steven Soderbergh claims he is retiring from directing this year
Rent It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. If you listen to the cast and crew of Texas Chainsaw 3D talk about making the film, it’s clear the group set out to make something that respects the fans and legacy of Tobe Hooper’s 1974 cult classic . Diehard fans sharpened their knives immediately upon hearing that Texas Chainsaw was to bill itself as a direct …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. John Sturges’ The Great Escape is regarded as one of the most exciting dramas ever filmed. The movie is a favorite of critics and casual fans alike for good reason, as it remains a thrilling, intelligent retelling of the prison break at Germany’s Stalag Luft III in March 1944
Rent It The Movie: In 1940, Metro Goldwyn Mayer produced a short subject called Jack Pot as part of their gritty “Crime Does Not Pay” series. Viewable on Warner Archives’ terrific Crime Does Not Pay set, the film matter-of-factly delved into the then-current epidemic of racketeers pressuring small business owners to stock slot machines for their customers to play, then hogging all the profits …
Highly Recommended THE FILM Please Note: The images used here are from promotional materials and stills provided by Criterion , not the Blu-ray edition under review. It’s no coincidence that, of all the multifarious masterpieces the great French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard has given us over the years and decades, it’s 1964’s Band of Outsiders ( Bande part ) that revved American auteur Quentin …
Highly Recommended The Movie: Directed by John Flynn in 1977, Rolling Thunder , for whatever reason, never really got the respect it deserved. When you figure it was originally written by Paul Schrader, the man who wrote Taxi Driver and Raging Bull , and that it was one of Oscar winning actor Tommy Lee Jones’ first major film roles, you’d think more people would be aware of it
Skip It You know how the home video rights to movies sometimes shuffle around from studio to studio.
Rent It THE FILM Please Note: The images used here are stills provided by director Hal Hartley’s Possible Films website, not the current Blu-ray edition under review. Writer/director Hal Hartley ( Henry Fool ), with his pictures’ eccentric ratios of cerebral, philosophically-minded intellectualism to wackiness and romance, is himself already something of an anomaly in the American-indie …
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Recommended THE FILM Please Note: The images used here are stills provided by director Hal Hartley’s Possible Films website, not the current Blu-ray edition under review.