Rent It Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. The Movie: With the amusing, ahead-of-its-time 1948 satire So This Is New York , Olive Films continues their plunge into the Paramount holdings for offbeat films – this particular one serves as a good vehicle for the semi-forgotten radio and television …
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
DVD Talk Collector Series Cannibal Holocaust: “Just sit back and enjoy the show.” Cannibal Holocaust is the Star Wars of cannibal movies. It’s the Star Wars of found-footage movies, and pretty much exploitation films in general
Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less Jason Bateman succeeds in front of and behind the camera Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Dark comedies, Kathryn Hahn Likes: Jason Bateman, Allison Janney Dislikes: Spelling bee pressure Hates: Crappy parents The Movie A full-grown man enters an eighth-grade spelling bee, and proceeds to systematically decimate his kiddie competitors with evil glee, before …
Recommended The Grand Budapest Hotel Blu-ray Review The Grand Budapest Hotel is a comedy-dramafromwriter/director Wes Anderson ( Rushmore , The Life AquaticWith SteveZissou ). It is Anderson’s 8th feature film and is a British/Germanco-production. The story takes place within and around the hotel andoccurswithin a fictional place known as the Republic of Zubrowka (itself ametaphorical state …
Rent It One of those “What were they thinking?” films from the early 1970s, The Baby (1973) is a real oddball horror-thriller similar but much inferior to Jack Hill’s darkly comic cult film Spider Baby (filmed in 1964 but unreleased until 1968), so much so one wonders if Baby writer and co-producer Abe Polsky had seen it. Produced on a modest but adequate budget, The Baby is pretty mild with …
Skip It THE FILM: In no way would a rational person confuse Elizabeth Banks for a prostitute, yellow Marc Jacobs dress or not.
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Jake Gyllenhaal plays two men that look exactly alike in the odd, haunting Enemy .
Recommended Note: Before we get started, I’d like to say, I don’t know if I’m using appropriate terms for describing the Special Olympians in this film, but I tried to avoid the obviously insulting ones (except for the Tropic Thunder reference in the opening section and any quotes from the film.) I’m not defending any mistakes I make. I’m just trying to save you an email by letting you know I’m …
Rent It The Film: With the recent surge of films surrounding the open wheel Formula 1 circuit, there have been smaller, quieter brothers within the genre that have been released, examining a variety of racing tournaments. Admittedly, Snake & Mongoose had a familiar name as one of the areas of focus, but it shed light on something I was not aware of.