Highly Recommended There’s…I don’t know, there’s a word I’m looking for here — one word that tells you everything you need to know about the second season of Archer without having to slog through a whole long, rambling review. I think it goes something like: You were supposed to click the ‘Play’ button on that, by the way
Recommended THE MOVIE: On the way out of my first viewing of Mateo Gil’s Blackthorn , I overheard someone calling it a “standard Western”–as if that would be a bad thing, if there were any such thing anymore. Making a Western these days is anything but standard; they’re enough of a novelty that it’s still worth being thankful when we get one, and not dismissing it for being less than a …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are promotional stills and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. There is a scene in Godard’s turning-point 1965 film Pierrot le fou in which stars Anna Karina and Jean-Paul Belmondo perform an impromptu “play” for American tourists in which an event as vast, urgent, and serious as the Vietnam War–including all its …
DVD Talk Collector Series THE MOVIE: Please Note: The images used here are from the 2004 DVD edition of the film and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. I wish there was a way to get my family to agree to making Fanny and Alexander our official selection for annual holiday viewing. Hell, I suppose I’d just be happy if we had something to watch together on either Thanksgiving or …