Recommended The Movie: In the early 80s, divorce suddenly became a big subject in the media, particularly when it involved couples with kids. Irreconcilable Differences , released in 1984, addressed not only the divorce of parents but of their daughter filing for legal divorce, or emancipation, from them as well. The movie begins with what was the biggest moment in the trailer and other …
Recommended Like Network and several other films before and since, Paul Michael Glaser’s The Running Man (1987) seemed far-fetched decades ago…but it hits a little closer to home these days.
Recommended I feel the need- the need for- 3D? Well, color me surprised. I had heard a couple years ago that Top Gun was going to be re-released in converted 3D, and I immediately thought that would be an extremely pointless endeavor
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Rarely does a modern horror film fill me with the kind of dread that makes pedestrian scenes feel ripe for a jolt
Recommended Throughout his career—and increasingly since 1999’s Magnolia —director Paul Thomas Anderson’s films have been hard to pin down. 2007’s striking There Will Be Blood (reviewed on Blu-Ray and DVD ) depicted a self-absorbed man and his pursuit of petroleum and profit
Highly Recommended The Movie: Also known as Army Of One , stunt coordinator Vic Armstrong’s feature film directorial debut is 1993’s Joshua Tree , a starring vehicle for the mighty Dolph Lundgren who made this film right after finishing up Universal Soldier . In the movie, Lundgren plays a truck driver named Wellman Santee. When we meet him, he and his partner Eddie (Ken Foree) are in the middle …
Recommended The Movie: Like many people, I really enjoyed the first few seasons of Weeds , though as the seasons kept mounting, their welcome became more and more overstayed. My wife hung in for the show a little longer than most (something that she has a trait for, perhaps as some loyalty or faith in the characters), but even she threw up her hands around the show’s sixth season. Maybe the show …
Recommended The Movie: Directed by stuntman Jesse V. Johnson, 2012’s The Package stars ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin as Tommy Wick, an enforcer for a loan shark named Big Doug (Eric Keenleyside). When we first meet him, he and his partner arrive at a bowling alley where they shake down a guy named Luis who owes Doug some money – they’ve already given him an extension, it’s time to pay up
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The screen grabs used here are from the standard-definition 2007 release , not the Blu-ray edition under review. To call Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1962 debut feature, Ivan’s Childhood , a “transitional” film implies something more compromised and less accomplished than it actually is.
Highly Recommended The Movie: “To a handful of unforgettable motion picture triumphs, Elia Kazan now adds an event of the first magnitude… the powerful, smoldering story of the New South… of the wild river that captured the attention of the entire world…