December 19, 2012
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Highly Recommended An old-fashioned adventure about mercenaries uncomfortably set amid present-day African political strife, The Wild Geese (1978) delivers the goods and then some, with plenty of exciting action. The film encountered uninformed protests when it was new wrongly labeling it as fascist, while in America poor distribution sabotaged it from becoming the great success it might …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are from stills provided by The Criterion Collection and promotional materials, and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. It starts off as postcards and lulls you, with its eye-popping, rich ‘n warm views of Old-World Italy and the Mediterranean, into a wide-open tourist mode — all the better to guide you to some …
Recommended Serial Experiments Lain Blu-ray Review Click onimage to view Blu-ray screenshot with1080p resolution S… Read the entire review
Highly Recommended Rarely imitated and never duplicated, The Qatsi Trilogy (1982-2002) offers an indispensable look at the world around us. My first exposure to the films was a decade ago, when Naqoyqatsi debuted theatrically and MGM released Koyaanisqatsi (1982) and Powaqqatsi (1988) on DVD.
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. ” Everything is connected all along the line. Cause and effect
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. French thriller Tell No One stays two steps ahead of its audience, twisting and turning through revelations that are unexpected but never unearned. A rare modern mystery with emotional heft and complex characters to complement its thrills, Tell No One recalls classic works by Alfred Hitchcock and Carol …
Rent It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. The man in the opening scene of Trouble with the Curve is not the Clint Eastwood I love. This man stumbles out of bed, knocks over furniture on his way to the bathroom, and struggles to take his morning piss.
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are from stills provided by The Criterion Collection and promotional materials, and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. The “failure” of Michael Cimino’s expensively-made box-office disaster Heaven’s Gate is something that’s been questioned more and more seriously, and been progressively reappraised and revised …
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