Highly Recommended It was, truly, one of the great mismatched double-bills. Back in 1980, I had gone to see David Lynch’s The Elephant Man at, I think, the La Parisien (sic) in Garden City, Michigan. My friends and I decided to stay for the second feature, which turned out to be Hangar 18 , the gloriously goofy UFO conspiracy movie from the greatly-missed Sunn Classics, a subsidiary of Schick …
Rent It Sengoku Basara – Season 1 and Season 2 SengokuBasara isan anime adaptation of a video game. Â If thatinstantly brings to mind a series that focuses more on creating”intense” a… Read the entire review
Highly Recommended THE MOVIES: Japanese movies made after World War II that deal directly with the post-War conditions following the country’s defeat and grappling with the U.S.
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution.
Recommended The Movie: Crashout , released in 1955, follows a group of six convicts (William Bendix, Arthur Kennedy, Luther Adler, Gene Evans, William Talman and Marshall Thompson) after they escape from prison in a big “crashout” with several others who didn’t make it out very far. The six lucky ones quickly find an old mine shaft where they hide out for a couple days and plan their next moves …
Recommended Alice (Juno Temple) and John (Michael Angarano) are young and in love. Wait, scratch that: let’s go with “young, in love, and flat broke” instead. That’s what overpriced, [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] Read the entire review
Highly Recommended THE FILM Please Note: The images used here are stills provided by Music Box Films and are not taken from the current Blu-ray edition under review. It’s always troubling to ponder, the way that the time, place, and culture in which one is born and raised can so easily slot you onto the wrong side of history. How sure can any of us be that we would’ve been in the tiny minority …
Recommended The above is from a trailer for The Manson Family included on this disc and is also quoted on the back cover. Being a DVDTalk reviewer for a relatively short time, this is the first time I have been faced with the unique challenge of covering a new release of a title that previously received praise worthy enough of being quoted on it.
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Scream Factory resurrects Charles B
Highly Recommended THE FILM Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition of the film under review. We’re all fairly well-accustomed by now to movies that openly, self-reflexively acknowledge their own artificiality — so many different filmmakers, from Godard to De Palma to Tarantino , have been doing it for so long, each for their own …