Some Days Are Better Than Others (Blu-ray)
Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional stills, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
April 22, 2012
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Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional stills, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Highly Recommended The interesting, anomalous science fiction horror film The Asphyx (1973), a picture unjustly all but forgotten until recently, was the product of several converging trends.
Highly Recommended The Movie: In a straightforward and simple way, the cover of the Pariah Blu-ray case includes the definitions for the word that the film uses as its title. And while the definitions like “outcast” and “rejected member of society” may sound overdramatic at first, one could make the case that such interpretations are not hard to get to, and the film makes a strong case as to why …
Recommended THE MOVIE: On the way out of my first viewing of Mateo Gil’s Blackthorn , I overheard someone calling it a “standard Western”–as if that would be a bad thing, if there were any such thing anymore. Making a Western these days is anything but standard; they’re enough of a novelty that it’s still worth being thankful when we get one, and not dismissing it for being less than a …
Highly Recommended THE MINISERIES: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from the accompanying DVD version of the miniseries, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Recommended It never fails – You give a television network pure gold, and they’ll beat it and roll it around in the mud before you ever had a chance to realize what was happening to it. Instead of looking at the quality of any given program, network executives would rather comb feverishly through their charts, graphs and reams of statistical data, and in pondering how much blood they might be …
Rent It The Film: You practically couldn’t see one of Focus Features’ films in 2011 without also stumbling onto the trailer for One Day , and considering the thriving year that the studio has had — ranging from Hanna to Jane Eyre , not to mention Bridesmaids on the Universal front — plenty of eyes fell on its OneRepublic-powered, indie-romance tearfulness.
Highly Recommended I’ve seen West Side Story (1961) three or four times through the years, including a screening at MGM back around 2002, apparently during the early stages of its restoration, but it wasn’t until I saw this particular Blu-ray that finally I was able to see past its many flaws and appreciate its equally abundant achievements.
Highly Recommended If you’re just looking for a quick, eight-word review, I could probably get away with leaving it at this: Intruder totally lives up to its cover art. Okay, you know how Joe Bob Briggs coined the phrase “Spam in a Cabin” to describe one of the most tried and true horror formulas of the 1980s? Y’know, a gaggle of horny twentysomethings trot off to some hopelessly out-of-the-way …
DVD Talk Collector Series THE FILM: Whenever I feel obliged to wrack my brains and recall some of the rare, precious bright spots of the 1980s (usually when confronted with the all-too-true conventional wisdom that that decade was culturally moribund and downright reactionary after the political questioning and artistic aspirations/freedoms of the ’70s), what comes immediately to mind is The …