Highly Recommended The Movie: A lost Ernst Lubitsch spectacle, one of the last two filmsthat he made in Germany before going to Hollywood, has been found,restored,and released on a lovely Blu-ray disc. The film is Das Weib des Pharao or The Loves of Pharaoh as it’s knownin English, is a large, impressive film filled with thousands of extrasandsome very striking sets (including a Sphinx!), but it …
Skip It THE MOVIE: “C’mon guys, that was funny.” -Stiffler “Maybe in high school it was funny.” -Jim And there you have the trouble with American Reunion in a two-line nutshell, with this film that has gone to a tremendous amount of trouble to gather all of the players (no matter how minor) from the hit 1999 comedy, and has gone to no trouble at all to give them anything funny or interesting to …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Chariots of Fire is a film I had seen parodied long before I actually saw it. The film’s ubiquitous title sequence of runners on a beach and its synthesizer-heavy score is known by many unfamiliar with the complete work. The Oscar-winning drama is quite good, too, and tells the story of two runners in 1920s Britain who deal with anti-Semitism and religious conviction …
DVD Talk Collector Series THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are promotional and are not taken from the Blu-ray under review. In the midst of Turkish writer/director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s ( Climates , Three Monkeys ) epically restrained crime drama/road trip of the soul, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia , its ostensibly central murder-investigation plot takes one more in a series of strange …
Recommended The Movie: Project X is the story of a couple of high school losers composed of Thomas (Thomas Mann), Costa (Oliver Cooper), JB (Jonathan Brown), and Dax (Dax Flame). Ha, I just noticed that everyone used their real names, with exception to Costa.
DVD Talk Collector Series Chronologically speaking, Love and Anarchy ( Film d’amore e d’anarchia, ovvero: stamattina alle 10, in via dei Fiori, nella nota casa di tolleranza… , or “Love and Anarchy or: This Morning at 10, on Via dei Fiori, in a Famous Brothel …” 1973) is the second of three great new Blu-ray releases from Kino Classics
Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less The eye is the window to the story Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: The Criterion Collection, good monologues Likes: Spalding Gray, Steven Soderbergh Dislikes: Hates: Anything bad involving eyes The Movie Thanks to a bootleg VHS tape of Gray’s Anatomy I first discovered Spalding Gray in college, while a performance of his It’s a Slippery Slope at Lincoln Center …
Rent It The premise of Bad Ass — a riff on the “Epic Beard Man” viral video with Danny Trejo as the ass-whupper — suggests a certain kind of movie: a goofy, modern Death Wish with over-the-top action. Unfortunately, the budget and a mixed bag of ideas and influences pull the film in so many opposing directions that it ends up going nowhere at all, stalling between a less-outrageous Machete and …
DVD Talk Collector Series Reviewed by Glenn Erickson These days anyone wanting to learn about the Beatles or to see endless fascinating film and videotape from their career(s) need only consult the many documentaries available, or just cruise the web. But back in the 1960s we teenaged Beatle fans had access to their records and little more
Rent It The Movie: The third and final film in Sam Raimi’s trilogy, 2007’s Spider-Man 3 picks up where the second film left off and catches up with Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) as he’s started to build his life back together after things got pretty dismal for him. He’s started to rebuild his relationship with Mary Jane (Kirstin Dunst), the love of his life, and he’s more comfortable in his role …