Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Director John Hillcoat reteams with screenwriter and musician Nick Cave for this prohibition-era tale of bootlegging set in Franklin County, Virginia; the wettest county in the world
Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are stills provided by Cinema Guild, not the Blu-ray edition under review. Robbie Pickering’s Natural Selection is a strange sort of anomaly, which is both a compliment and a criticism. It belongs to that school of independent American movie — ranging from Sling Blade to Napoleon Dynamite to Junebug (a peak of the movement) and beyond …
DVD Talk Collector Series THE MOVIES: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the DVD editions included in the Ultimate Edition , not the main Blu-ray discs under review. Had I known that the Harry Potter series was going to end up here, in a dark and challenging world where life is not all magic spells and problems dispensed with a wave of a wand, I’d have probably gotten on board and …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Sylvester Stallone admits that he didn’t quite nail the tone of The Expendables . That love letter to 1980s action flicks and the stars that kicked ass in them felt a bit slipshod despite some enthusiastic directing by Stallone and eager help from recent star Jason Statham. Stallone hands the directing reigns over to Simon West this go-round, but is still heavily …
Highly Recommended If you’ve been perusing the DVD and Blu – ray sections of your local retailers this year, then you’ve undoubtedly seen the banner atop many a disc that celebrates 100 years of filmmaking for Universal Studios.
DVD Talk Collector Series Entourage Complete Series Blu-ray Review Click onimage to view Blu-ray screenshot with1080p Resolution E… Read the entire review
Rent It In general, there’s a sense that the modern cartoon makes a distinct effort to be for both kids and parents alike. Aside from shows with an educational mandate (like “Dora the Explorer,”), the tendency to slip in a little subversive humor for the grown-ups watching these shows seems to be on the rise. I guess that’s what I was expecting of “The Adventures of Gumball,” which shares …
Recommended The Movie: Arthur Christmas is a CG animated film from Aardman (the British studio best known here for “Wallace and Gromit”) and Sony Pictures Animation. Like Disney’s Santa Clause movies, it attempts to explain how Santa Claus does his job in the modern world
Highly Recommended THE FILMS: Bringing many of Hitchcock’s films to Blu-ray for the first time, Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection offers, in one box, a veritable galaxy of brilliant work by the man who, when all is said and done, can creditably be considered the greatest movie director ever, at least in the English-speaking world. In this galaxy there are the Plutos, the curious …
Recommended The Show: This is a 2011 stage performance of Stephen Sondheim’s musical comedy, which had a brief run in movie theaters last year and has now been issued on Blu-Ray disc from Image Entertainment. Company premiered in 1970 on Broadway with a cast album released shortly after. Since then it has had several revivals, including one previous to this production in 2006 which is also …