Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from the 1997 standard-definition DVD edition , not the Blu-ray edition under review. It’s rare enough for a fondly-remembered but not recently revisited film to even live up to our lingering, benevolent but hazy recollections of it; it’s rarer still for that film to surpass them and reveal further wellsprings of …
Highly Recommended Rebecca (1940) is one of three Alfred Hitchcock movies MGM/Fox has released to Blu-ray, the others being Spellbound (1945) and Notorious (1946).
Highly Recommended The Movie: Here’s a film that threw everyone off a bit. There be dragons? If you want to get technical the phrase is actually “Here Be Dragons,” but it was modified a bit for the film
Skip It Zoinks! Abby (Aimee Teegarden) , her kinda-sorta boyfriend Travis (Tony Oller) , and a few other clean-scrubbed fake teenager types think they’ve spotted a gh-gh- ghost ! at Old Man Ely’s creepy ol’ house. I mean, they see a couple of silhouettes dancing in an upstairs window, and…well, what else could it be? Ghosts
Highly Recommended For this reviewer, watching Woody Allen’s Manhattan (1979) on Blu-ray was a curious viewing experience. I’d seen it when it was new, while I was in high school. And between 1979 and 1989 I must have watched it at least another 15 times, first in theaters and later in revival houses and on cable television beginning around 1984, where Manhattan may have been the first movie …
Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from the 2003 standard-definition DVD edition , not the Blu-ray edition under review. It’s strange to be speaking of Adaptation in the past tense; I vividly remember rushing right out to see it upon its release nearly a decade ago.
Highly Recommended The Film: At the beginning of City of God , the streets of Brazil — the winding slums, not the picturesque landscapes adorning postcards — come alive through sharpening knives, drum-heavy percussion music, and a pack of children chasing a chicken. Then, the relative normalcy stops: a camera-carrying high-schooler, Rocket, freezes when he comes face-to-face with teenage thugs …
Highly Recommended The Movie: I’m just going to warn you in advance: this is going to be one of those reviews where someone is going to be exposed to a famous film for the first time. Shoot, I had no idea The Apartment had been selected to the National Film Registry a few years ago for being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” (and as an aside, that would be an intriguing …
Rent It Time is money. No, really! I mean that totally literally, and if you somehow manage to miss that pun the first time through, In Time will help you out by repeating it over and over and over and over and over and over [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] … Read the entire review
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The screengrabs used here are from the standard-definition DVD released in 2007, not from the Blu-Ray. Chris Marker is, undisputedly, a unique and gifted filmmaker. His point of view is unlike any of his contemporaries, and over the years, he has continued to work at his own pace and pursuing his own interests.