Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Director John Hillcoat reteams with screenwriter and musician Nick Cave for this prohibition-era tale of bootlegging set in Franklin County, Virginia; the wettest county in the world
Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are stills provided by Cinema Guild, not the Blu-ray edition under review. Robbie Pickering’s Natural Selection is a strange sort of anomaly, which is both a compliment and a criticism. It belongs to that school of independent American movie — ranging from Sling Blade to Napoleon Dynamite to Junebug (a peak of the movement) and beyond …
Rent It THE MOVIE: It’s fitting that Kino would time their Blu-Ray release of D.W. Griffith’s Abraham Lincoln to coincide with Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln going into wide release around the world, because judging by the promos included on the disc, Griffith made this 1930 biography to capitalize on the resurgent success of his Civil War epic Birth of a Nation . Like Se or Spielbergo going back to …
Highly Recommended *CLICK on ALL images in this review for high resolution screenshots I’m a fan of musicals, but they need to be more than mere tales spun by musical notes. There needs to be some passion in the storytelling, or at least a charismatic cast that makes the production worthwhile. Nowadays, the plot is pushed aside in order to make way for spectacle.
Highly Recommended In your faaaace ! Cartoon Network and Warner Bros. piss off more goofs who can’t just enjoy a simple DVD full of toons with the release of Regular Show: The Best DVD in the World* (*at this moment in time) , a single-disc, 16-episode collection of Cartoon Network ‘s hit Monday night show (and my current favorite toon on television). Created by J
Recommended The Movie: Arthur Christmas is a CG animated film from Aardman (the British studio best known here for “Wallace and Gromit”) and Sony Pictures Animation. Like Disney’s Santa Clause movies, it attempts to explain how Santa Claus does his job in the modern world
Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the bonus DVD included in this combo, not the Blu-ray edition under review. When People Like Us opens, we see Chris Pine performing in a role he seems born to play: a salesman.
Rent It [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] “You know how it is when you eat Chinese! Half an hour later, you’re hungry again!” Yeah, I know, and that Thursday-night-on-TBS sense of humor is pretty much wh…
Highly Recommended The Movie: Dial M For Murder was Alfred Hitchcock’s 39th film and based on a stage play by Frederick Knott. The story concerns Tony (Ray Milland) and his wife Margot (Grace Kelly). They live together in a London apartment (where most of the movie takes place) but the problem is that Margot has been having an affair with Mark (Robert Cummings) for quite some time.
Highly Recommended Chronologically the fourth of four “Three Mesquiteers” Westerns released to Blu-ray by Olive Films, and the sixth of eight such films co-starring John Wayne, Three Texas Steers (1939) is a lively B-Western-circus picture-racetrack yarn genre hybrid. Subtle it ain’t, but for those viewers willing to sit back and enjoy its frequent ridiculousness, it can be 56 minutes of …