Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. Whit Stillman is still Whit Stillman after all these years. The godfather of Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach.
Recommended THE FILM: I must confess that Hocus Pocus was one of my favorite Disney movies as a child. It didn’t pander to kids, and the danger felt real
Highly Recommended THE SHOW: ” I had a beautiful dream about a gumball machine. Can I tell you about it? ” Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review
Recommended Reviewed by Glenn Erickson Possibly timed to accompany Universal’s classic monster romp Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein to Blu-ray, Mad Monster Party? (the question mark is indeed used on the film title) is a lightly amusing kiddie picture with interest for fans of ’60s cult culture
Skip It THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. If you’ve ever been on the fence about having kids, seeing The Babymakers will make up your mind
Skip It You sort of have to hand it to Sony: against all odds, they managed to turn Starship Troopers — which only earned $120m worldwide against a $100m budget — into a surprisingly valuable franchise. First, there was the seemingly popular animated TV series “Roughnecks,” followed by two live-action direct-to-video sequels. Last year, Sony announced a remake was also in the works, but that …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from stills and other promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. It has an abandoned battleship, not a locomotive, as its perpetually in-motion, out-of-control set, but Buster Keaton’s 1924 feature The Navigator — the last occasion on which he shared directing credit before going full auteur for the …
Highly Recommended Pocahontas Blu-ray Review Disney’s Pocahontas may not be the mostfaithful telling of the story imaginable (for some that follow history”to thebooks” and expect filmmakers to entirely follow suite that might evenseem a gigantic understatement) but it is acreative, visionary, and beautiful film about the discovery of the “newworld”in America by Spanish explorers and the …
DVD Talk Collector Series THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. “Gee, it’s funny how lonesome a fella can be, especially with a million people around him.” The new Criterion Blu-ray edition of Paul Fejos’s splendiferous 1928 color/B&W, silent/talkie Hollywood hybrid Lonesome is the kind of thing that makes you …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review.