Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less Brilliant ’80s time capsule in cult-classic form Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Crazy plots Likes: Don Coscarelli films Dislikes: Gore Hates: When people can’t handle originality The Movie Unlike many fans of Repo Man , I discovered the film a bit later in life. I was always aware of the film, even if I did sometimes confuse it with another Emilio Estevez favorite …
Recommended The Movie: Kind of a British hybrid consisting of elements from the original Godzilla (or, if you will, Gojira ) with a little bit of King Kong thrown into the mix for good measure, 1961’s Gorgo was directed by Eugene Lourie who had previously helmed The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms in 1953 and The Giant Behemoth in 1959. Produced by the UK’s King Brothers, the film was distributed …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Over a decade in the making, Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln is a meticulous, accomplished dramatization of the Great Emancipator’s push to enact the Thirteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution before the end of the Civil War
Skip It Before the wide adoption of DVD and Blu-Ray, it seemed like there was a sense that other countries were making much better movies than America. A Run Lola Run here, an Oldboy there, and suddenly foreign film became a movie-geek magnet
Recommended The Movie: Directed by Peter Chan in 2011, Dragon (retitled for release in North America by the Weinsteins for some reason, the original title was Wu-Xia ) stars Donnie Yen as a man named Liu Jin-xi. He’s lived in the same small town for about ten years now, having married a local single mother named Ayu (Tang Wei) and set up shop in town making paper. Together he and his wife are …
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu – ray edition under review. Critics are fond of declaring things like, “It’s the best time I had at the movies all year!” Only, when we do, it’s not supposed to be about a movie that is over 70 years old.
Rent It Yann Arthus-Bertrand and Michael Pitiot’s Planet Ocean (2012), like many eco-minded documentaries, wants to captivate our senses while attempting to get its message across.
Rent It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu – ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. A sequel to the 2009 slasher The Collector wasn’t exactly a given, though that film tripled its $3 million budget at the box office.
Skip It THE MOVIE: Please Note: The images used here are taken from the standard-definition DVD included with this release, not the Blu – ray edition under review. My favorite conceit of movies about authors is that they always have said authors sitting around with others of their kind making grand pronouncements about their craft and inflating what is one of the world’s most boring professions to …
Rent It In Hong Kong, where non-organized prostitution is already legal, many women further blur the line by offering their services for Paid Dates, in which they have the freedom to choose who they go out with, what they do, and whether or not they’ll sleep with their clients. Girl$ follows four women involved in the Paid Date game: Lin (Una Lin), a veteran employee who feels she has a special …