Bounce (Blu-ray)
Rent It THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are promotional stills from the film’s release and are not taken from Blu-ray edition under review.
May 20, 2012
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Rent It THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are promotional stills from the film’s release and are not taken from Blu-ray edition under review.
Recommended The Movie: Littlerock is the story of Rintaro (Rintaro Sawamoto) and Atsuko (Atsuko Okatsuka), siblings from Japan, on their way to San Francisco.
Recommended Survival horror isn’t exactly a new genre. From John Carpenter’s The Thing to Lord of the Flies and The Descent , these films often focus on unwitting strangers who gradually get picked off by predators, environmental disasters or, in some cases, each other.
Recommended The Movie: Seeing Meryl Streep win the Academy Award for her work in The Iron Lady was nice to witness, but lost in the tidal wave of praise for that performance was the fact that Glenn Close had returned for another round of critical acclaim, earning her sixth Oscar nomination for her work in Albert Nobbs . And while Streep had not won her second Oscar in a while, Close has yet to …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. I’ve never been entirely convinced that the kind of stubbornly purist realism propounded and practiced by the late John Cassavetes is as pure and effective as the often great , sometimes crackpot Mr. Cassavetes seemed to believe; it’s touching but na ve, it …
Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the film’s promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. Jimmy Testagros (Ron Eldard, Super 8 , TV’s ER ) is having a bad day, and before he sees the next sunrise, it’s going to get a whole lot worse
Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional stills, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Highly Recommended I must admit to taking Meryl Streep for granted most of the last 30 years. After a pretty amazing early film career in films like The Deer Hunter (1978), Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1981), and Sophie’s Choice (1982), for me Streep’s movies began a big downward slide beginning with the absurdly overrated Out of Africa (1985).
Skip It Entering the picture to James Bond-style guitar riffs, and quickly dispensing of a few nobodies without messing up his nice suit or slick shades, there’s no question that Mandrill (Marko Zaror) is a cool character in the mind of director/writer Ernesto D az Espinoza. The mind of the viewer is another story. Zaror is a talented martial artist with some eye-popping moves in his arsenal …
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.