Highly Recommended The Movie: Most of us should know by now that the Western genre is inspired more from cowboys and Indians fantasies than any realistic depiction of 19 th century life in the actual west. Life in the harsh, unforgiving and isolated parts of the country during that time was more about survival, of the body and of the mind, than anything else
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Recommended The Movie: How To Murder Your Wife is one bizarro movie which tells a very adult story in a childlike manner (at times, it felt like live-action Disney comedy with naughty bits). An item from the MGM/UA back catalog given a polished Blu Ray re-release thanks to the folks at Olive Films, this loopy, underseen 1965 comedy is ripe for a re-appraisal.
Recommended The Movie: During an interview featured in one of the extras for A Day in the Country, Renoir scholar Christopher Faulkner points out how much of an odd choice this wistful and nostalgic ode to the simple pleasures of life was for the director at the time. Renoir shot A Day in the Country, adapted from a short story by Guy de Maupassant, in the middle of a career and personal life …
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Director Marc Webb seems more in command of his blockbuster comic-book adaptation The Amazing Spider-Man 2 than he did on the previous outing, which is impressive considering Webb is only two films out from his first project, indie (500) Days of Summer .
DVD Talk Collector Series Content: I was primarily an anime fan back in the mid 90's to the early 2000's, watching titles like Cowboy Bebop, Dragon Ball Z, The Big O and Trigun .
Recommended The Movie: Directed by Greydon Clark, 1980's Without Warning starts out with a great opening scene in which a middle aged hunting enthusiast (Cameron Mitchell) and his slacker/hippie son (Darby Hinton) are wandering the desert where they're quickly dispatched by weird jellyfish-like flying discs that zip through the air and attach themselves to their backs. Shortly after that, a Boy …
Recommended Reviewed by Glenn Erickson Under its proprietary branded line Scream Factory, the busy Shout! Factory Company continues to release neglected titles from the MGM library, which contains a large number of fantasy, horror and sci-fi pictures from Orion, A.I.P. and United Artists. This Double Feature Blu-ray / DVD combo disc pairs two UA pix with vaguely ‘prehistoric’ themes.
Recommended Johann (Bobby Sommer) is a security guard in the Kunsthistorisches Art Museum in Vienna. Once a rock-and-roll tour manager, Johann has started to look for peace and quiet in his old age, and the museum provides everything he could want: an opportunity for serenity, an opportunity to observe the artwork, and an opportunity to observe the people who come in to do the same thing
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Nearly a decade after The Chronicles of Riddick underwhelmed audiences and critics, Director David Twohy and star Vin Diesel are back with a new off-world adventure for the popular antihero Riddick. This second sequel to Pitch Black returns to the moderate budget filmmaking that made that film successful, and …