Skip It THE FILM: Chernobyl Diaries nails its dreary, post-nuclear meltdown Ukraine setting but not much else. This anemic horror film was written and produced by Paranormal Activity director Oren Peli, and provides little bloodletting, special effects or suspense. Several young friends join a burly local for an “Extreme Tour” of Prypiat, the stricken city next door to the Chernobyl Nuclear …
DVD Talk Collector Series One of the all-time great boxing movies, Body and Soul (1947) instantly became the template even for the great ones that followed. Champion and The Set-Up (both 1949) told similar stories, while The Harder They Fall (1956), also excellent, is practically a remake of Body and Soul only told from the perspective of a cynical publicist rather than the fighter. Body and …
Highly Recommended The Movie: Dial M For Murder was Alfred Hitchcock’s 39th film and based on a stage play by Frederick Knott. The story concerns Tony (Ray Milland) and his wife Margot (Grace Kelly). They live together in a London apartment (where most of the movie takes place) but the problem is that Margot has been having an affair with Mark (Robert Cummings) for quite some time.
Highly Recommended Chronologically the fourth of four “Three Mesquiteers” Westerns released to Blu-ray by Olive Films, and the sixth of eight such films co-starring John Wayne, Three Texas Steers (1939) is a lively B-Western-circus picture-racetrack yarn genre hybrid. Subtle it ain’t, but for those viewers willing to sit back and enjoy its frequent ridiculousness, it can be 56 minutes of …
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Recommended The Movie: Jane Fonda playing a grandmother? Having watched mostly her older films like Barbarella and Fun With Dick & Jane in recent years, it’s a bit of a shock to see her as an “old person” in Peace, Love and Misunderstanding
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Recommended The Movie: Confusing part out of the way first: although this movie has been titled Cheeky! on the covers of this and previous video releases, the official title that appears onscreen is Transgressing , which is the English-dubbed version of the Italian film Transgredire . With me so far?
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Highly Recommended The second of four “Three Mesquiteers” Westerns being released to Blu-ray and co-starring John Wayne, Red River Range (1938) is no Red River (1948), but on its own terms is outlandish and amusing, if juvenile. As with Overland Stage Raiders the main draw is the revelatory high-def transfer, which might seem fairly ordinary to the casual viewer but is certain to astound long …