Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. The father and son relationship at the heart of Lee Daniels’ The Butler nearly eclipses the story proper, which concerns African-American Cecil Gaines, a longtime White House butler who served during eight administrations over 34 years
Rent It Himalaya Blu-ray Review Himalaya is acritically acclaimed film from director Eric Valli,which went on to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at theAcademyAwards during the original year of release in 1999. …
Highly Recommended Most people with any knowledge of rock music (or Martin Scorsese’s movies) can summon The Rolling Stones’ “Gimme Shelter” to mind. Powerful riffs, Mick Jagger, and a woman, belting out the memorable lyric, “it’s just a shot away” at the top of her lungs. Merry Clayton generally got her work doing back-up vocals, and she’s not alone: 20 Feet From Stardom interviews a whole …
Rent It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Casey Affleck assumes the quiet, thoughtful demeanor of his cowardly killer in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford again in Director David Lowery’s Ain’t Them Bodies Saints . Less a coward than a lovesick ne’er-do-well, Affleck’s Bob Muldoon takes the blame for shooting a cop to save his …
DVD Talk Collector Series For once the tag lines were accurate: “Wild. Wonderful. Sinful.
Rent It The Movie: Surprisingly enough, this 1955 western was directed by none other than William Castle, the man better known for his fantastic gimmicky horror pictures like The Tingler , 13 Ghosts and The House On Haunted Hill to name just a few. On top of that, it stars Glenn Ford and Cesar Romero and, unlike most westerns, it’s set in South America (Brazil to be specific). You’d think all of …
Rent It The good [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] news…? Blue Underground is back! The bad news…? Um, Snuff
Highly Recommended The Film : In Sound of My Voice and Another Earth , writer/actress Brit Marling and her creative teams focused on fairly abstract emotional topics and themes, from how a cult community manipulates new recruits to how mourning the death of a loved one interacts with the existence of an “alternate reality”. Both are smart, boundary-testing challenges that operating in …
Recommended Well, we’ve got the third “Monster High” release within a year, and the first one to be given the honor of a Blu-Ray release. For the uninitiated, “Monster High” is a line of toys, animated specials and other merchandise for kids (whom I earlier jokingly referred to as “Goth girls-in-training”).
Skip It To the less-attentive viewer, Sisters & Brothers might seem like a complete and fully-formed movie, but it’s merely an optical illusion created by the film’s talented cast. At least six of the film’s ten central performers manage to lift impressive amounts of genuine emotion out of director / writer Carl Bessai’s scattershot, clumsy screenplay, infusing a number of scenes with a sense of …