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Skip It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. I may not be the target audience for young adult film adaptation The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones but I was willing to give it a fair shake.
Rent It Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. The TV Series: Time for more cha-cha music, manly men, swanky dames, and Rat Pack-era swellegance. In an unfortunate coincidence, we happened to watch the second and final season of the Starz “mobsters and mayhem in 1959 Miami” drama Magic City at the same time …
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Rent It The majority of American film fans will only maybe know Jay Chou from The Green Hornet , the underrated Michel Gondry-directed, Seth Rogen / Evan Goldberg-scripted adaptation that cast the actor as actual hero Kato to Rogen’s dim Hornet. In his home country of China, however, Chou rose to fame as a songwriter for numerous pop acts after an appearance on a televised competition show, then …
Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less Celebrating George Pal’s mostly-forgotten animated legacy Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Animation Likes: Davey & Goliath , Gumby , Historical collections that don’t ignore controversy Dislikes: Most puppets Hates: How artists oft go unappreciated The Movie Though I consider myself film literate, before watching this set, the extent of my knowledge of George Pal …
Highly Recommended To be perfectly honest, when I requested The Attack it was listed in our screener pool only as “Attack” and I thought it was the same-named 1955 Robert Aldrich war movie. Instead, it turned out to be a partly American-financed movie about an Arab man living in Tel Aviv coming to grips with the realization that his wife may have been responsible for a suicide bombing that …
Rent It In 10 Words or Less Back on Blu, empty on extras Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: The Monster Squad , Team-Up Flicks, ’80s movies Likes: Kids Adventures, Stan Winston effects Dislikes: Rights issues Hates: Missing out on existing extras The Story So Far… The Monster Squad is an underrated late-’80s action/horror-comedy pitting a team of kid horror-movie buffs against the classic Universal …
Highly Recommended Lightning Bug isn’t a horror flick, and yet it’s a film I’d bet many genre fans can relate to…those of us who grew up devouring Fangoria and GoreZone month in and month out, daydreaming about being the next Tom Savini or Rob Bottin. See, high school senior Green Graves (Bret Harrison) has a knack for creating gruesome monsters: doodling, sculpting, Read the entire review