Skip It Click on all images in this review for 1080p screenshots. I was intrigued when I saw the trailer for Alex Cross some time ago, but there were two things about it that heightened my skepticism – First, the trailer went to extraordinary lengths to promote style over substance, and second but most certainly not least, Tyler Perry wasn’t reaching out to me in a way th..
DVD Talk Collector Series The directing (and producing) career of Blake Edwards ran hot and cold, boy howdy. To his credit, he was frequently attracted to controversial and difficult-to-adapt projects; at one point he was attached to the first Planet of the Apes movie, for instance. But he also had a soft spot for classical slapstick, especially the kind of pantomime done to perfection by Laurel …
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Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The screen shots used here are from the 2007 DVD edition, not the Blu-ray under review. Monte Hellman’s dazed, stoically gorgeous 1971 film Two-Lane Blacktop is another one of those nuggets from the storied American cinema of the ’70s that easily proves what’s by now a commonplace among movie buffs — that it was a time when the frantic desperation of …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. The easy chemistry between Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pe a draws you into the lives of their characters – two LAPD officers who work a particularly rough part of South Central Los Angeles – and sells the gritty reality of David Ayer’s End of Watch , a particularly resonant cop drama that makes first …
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The images used here are promotional stills and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. From Ang Lee’s urbane but serious-minded portrait of the 1970s, The Ice Storm , to Richard Linklater’s openly comic and lovingly mocking take on the same, Dazed & Confused
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.
Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The images used here are from the standard definition DVD included with the Blu-Ray and not from the Blu-Ray itself. What if Santa Claus were real, but instead of being the kindly old gentleman you see on greeting cards, he’s really a horned devil who comes and steals naughty children for punishment? This is the Santa that the little boy Pietari (Onni Tomilla …