Skip It THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are promotional stills and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. Considered solely as a career-launching vehicle, one can understand the appeal of Michael Cristofer’s 1998 made-for-HBO movie, Gia , a biopic recounting the tragic life and untimely death of Gia Carangi, America’s first “supermodel,” who died of AIDS in 1986, when …
Highly Recommended There’s no flashy, boisterous computer animation. No overcranked, hypercaffeinated sensory overload. No stuntcasting for voices just so Disney could put a [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] famous name in big, bold letters on the poster.
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The images used here are from the previous DVD edition and not the Blu-Ray under review. I didn’t like Martin Scorsese’s Cape Fear at first. As a big fan of J
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The images used here are promotional stills and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. Zolt n Korda’s 1939 epic The Four Feathers is an entertaining anachronism.
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are promotional stills provided by Kino Lorber and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. Johan (Andreas Lust, Revanche ) runs, and that is the action that defines him completely; his other occupation, robbing banks, is only a subset, an offshoot of that raison d’ tre
Recommended The Movie: Directed by Srdjan Spasojevic in 2010, A Serbian Film has been the subject of no small amount of controversy since it played a few festival dates and was released on DVD and Blu-ray in some European territories. Not only did a German film lab refuse to print the movie, but it’s been banned in Norway, heavily cut in the UK and released cut and then later banned entirely in …
Recommended THE MOVIE: ” All’s good if it’s excessive.
Rent It The Product: From time to time, we critics like to make up our own personal movie rules. We do so not because the artform needs them or because we can’t do our job without them.
Rent It THE FILM: A title card at the beginning of Submarine contains a plea addressed to American audiences from the film’s protagonist, Oliver Tate, to treat the film gently, because it’s an important story.