Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. You’d be forgiven for forgetting Resident Evil: Retribution’s super generic subtitle, as it may as well be called “This Year’s Resident Evil 3D.” This is the fifth Milla Jovovich-lead film in the franchise, and directly follows the events of last year’s Resident Evil: Afterlife , which marked the return of …
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Skip It “Anger Management” is a sitcom for the FX cable channel starring Charlie Sheen. A brief note at the end of each episode states that it is based on the movie of the same name, but does not show any resemblance. Sheen plays a character also creatively named Charlie who was once a major-league baseball player but had to leave due to his anger issues.
Recommended The Movie: The Paperboy is based on a 1995 pulp novel by Pete Dexter, who Sacramentans may recognize from his Sacramento Bee column in the 1980s. The screenplay was written by Dexter along with director Lee Daniels
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the 2002 DVD release of the film, not the Blu-ray edition under review. In the spring of 1990, Disney was pushing Dick Tracy , Warren Beatty’s big-screen adaptation of the iconic Chester Gould comic strip, with a torrent of merchandise and publicity
Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are from the included DVD edition, not the Blu-ray version. If, at the time of late 2008’s contentious presidential election and brutal economic meltdown, you’d told me that current events would, come 2012 and via HBO, give rise to a scenario in which L.A
Skip It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Although it appears to be an honest effort and a carefully planned directorial debut for Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal, The Words is much less interesting than it realizes.
DVD Talk Collector Series THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. PART ONE: MY ORIGINAL REVIEW, SEPTEMBER 2012 Writing about time travel movies can often be a challenge. Not only are they usually difficult to explain, but the very thing that makes them difficult is what also makes them a kick to watch
Highly Recommended THE PROGRAM: Please Note: The images used here are from promotional materials provided by Arte Live Web and public-domain photos of St. Thomas Church, Leipzig , and Haussmann ‘s portrait of Bach; they are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. In the interest of being upfront before indulging in my superlative-laden recommendation of the new Blu-ray version of Bach’s …
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. Respected French actor Daniel Auteuil ( Cach ) steps behind the camera for the first time to direct a remake of Marcel Pagnol’s 1940 film The Well-Digger’s Daughter