Recommended THE SERIES: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from promotional materials provided by PBS, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Recommended THE SERIES: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from promotional materials provided by PBS, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from promotional materials provided by Fox Searchlight, not the Blu-ray edition under review. Sean Durkin’s Martha Marcy May Marlene is the kind of film that, in a better world, would be showered with Oscars and have the whole culture (not just the little patch of movie-reviewer land that, for example, yours truly …
DVD Talk Collector Series THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the film’s promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. The next time you hear someone grousing about how movies are only supposed to be 90 minutes long and anything over two hours is an affront to their patience, hand them a copy of Otto Preminger’s Anatomy of a Murder . After they have sat …
Skip It For most, a photograph of this new Underworld: The Essential Collection box will be all the review they’ll need: it’s the same discs, cases, and content made available with these guilty pleasure flicks since the first days of the Blu-ray format, only equipped with a limp, inessential bonus disc and a snazzy box to give it some gusto. I say most because, unless I’m incorrect, the majority …
Recommended THE PROGRAM: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from promotional images provided by PBS, not the Blu-ray edition under review. It is both disturbing and unsurprising that The American Experience: Clinton , the recent PBS documentary on the multiple rises and falls of our 42nd president, plays like a melodrama that makes frequents dips into soap opera before righting …
Rent It “Unless.” Dr. Seuss’s prescient, cautionary environmental fable The Lorax (1971) was one of his best children’s books. Despite claims to the contrary on the disc’s single featurette, that “nobody was talking about the environment” at the time except for Seuss, in fact during the late 1960s and early ’70s concerns about the long-term effects of pollution, deforestation, and smog was on …
Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less Animated adventure with a hint of humor Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Good animation, Salma Hayek, Zach Galifianakis Likes: Action comedy, Antonio Banderas, the Shreck franchise Dislikes: Wasted talent Hates: Humpty Dumpty The Movie Though your humble reviewer has watched all four Shrek films, and enjoyed them to various degrees, outside of the first one, none …
Recommended The Movie: Christine (Ann Michelle from Pete Walker’s House Of Whipcord ) and Betty (Vicki Michelle who played Yvette in the BBC’s Allo Allo ) are two sultry sisters who have just left home and made their way to the swinging London of the early 1970s. They hitch a ride into town with Johnny (Keith Buckley of Dr. Phibes Rises Again ), a hip young man who puts the girls up at his pad …
Highly Recommended The Movie: Age of Heroes is the new WWII film starring Sean Bean and Danny Dyer as Ian Flemings agents of freedom and part of his “30 Commando Assault Unit.” Danny Dyer plays the role of Cpl. Bob Raynes who after a prolonged firefight in which most of his unit is decimated is quickly sent off to a UK military boot camp for punishment, and from what I gather, “retraining.” He …