Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are promotional stills provided by MK2 and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. The Fairy ( La F e ) is the third film by a trio of French filmmakers — Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, and Bruno Romy — who are old-fashioned in the best possible sense. The Fairy could accurately be described as a romantic comedy, but as …
Highly Recommended Despite its distinction of being Jean Renoir’s first American film — not to mention one of Fox’s biggest moneymakers from the class of 1941 — Swamp Water has somehow managed to long languish in obscurity. Dismissed by [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] Read the entire review
Recommended Robert Redford has spent more than 40 years in front of (and behind) the camera, so it’s no surprise that he’s amassed quite a deep filmography.
Recommended In 10 Words or Less Tosh.0 on Blu-Ray is overkill Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Funny internet clips Likes: Daniel Tosh, Tosh.0 , Web Soup Dislikes: Gross-out comedy, viewer videos Hates: Clip-show bits The Show Once upon a time, there were TV shows hosted by comedians that featured internet content as far as the eye could see, with Web Junk 20 , Web Soup and Tosh.0 .
DVD Talk Collector Series THE FILM: Please Note: All of the images used here are from promotional materials and are not taken from the Blu-ray under review. Astutely predicting the outcry that would surely erupt from various Charlie Chaplin purists and completists were they to have put out only one Gold Rush or the other, Criterion is now releasing the 1925 classic as what amounts to one Blu-ray …
Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are promotional and are not taken from the Blu-ray under review. There’s no getting around the fact that P. David Ebersole’s Hit So Hard , a documentary on Patty Schemel, former drummer for the band Hole, is inherently going to have very different levels of appeal based on factors unrelated to how good and interesting the film is (and this …
Highly Recommended Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s seven-part, 14-hour The War (2007) attempts to document the American perspective of World War II in the same signature style Burns (and sometimes Novick) has brought to other subjects, like Jazz (2001), Baseball (1994/2010) and, most famously, The Civil War (1990). In attempting to distinguish itself from other made-for-television documentaries …
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.
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.