Recommended [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] The overture plays as the audience begins to settle into their seats. After a few minutes of that lovely music, the curtains start to pull back. Read the entire review
Recommended Here’s the thing about classic horror movie fans: they’ll eagerly sample absolutely everything, no matter how awful, how outr .
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from Criterion’s 1999 DVD edition and do not reflect the picture quality of the Blu-ray under review. In the films of Alfred Hitchcock, the world of seemingly everyday, normal, ordinary experience merely represents the precarious waters lying just outside a powerful whirlpool of danger, intrigue, and sobering (or even …
DVD Talk Collector Series Chronologically speaking, Love and Anarchy ( Film d’amore e d’anarchia, ovvero: stamattina alle 10, in via dei Fiori, nella nota casa di tolleranza… , or “Love and Anarchy or: This Morning at 10, on Via dei Fiori, in a Famous Brothel …” 1973) is the second of three great new Blu-ray releases from Kino Classics
Recommended The Movies: Hot on the heels of their Blood Trilogy Blu-ray release, Something Weird Video once again returns to the well that is the filmography of Herschell Gordon Lewis with a high definition double feature release of The Wizard Of Gore and The Gore Gore Girls .
Recommended The Movie: Seeing Meryl Streep win the Academy Award for her work in The Iron Lady was nice to witness, but lost in the tidal wave of praise for that performance was the fact that Glenn Close had returned for another round of critical acclaim, earning her sixth Oscar nomination for her work in Albert Nobbs . And while Streep had not won her second Oscar in a while, Close has yet to …
Rent It The movie’s called Underworld: Awakening and all that, so why does it keep putting me to sleep? That’s kind of the weird thing about this fourth — fourth! — installment in the vampires-in-this-corner-werewolves-in-the-other franchise. If you asked me to rattle off a laundry list of all the stuff Read the entire review
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. An old-fashioned, progressive social-problem film, Mario Monicelli’s energetic, down-to-earth 1963 strike drama The Organizer combines the lyrical beauty of socialist realism with a Neorealist tough-mindedness of sensibility, avoiding the much-maligned slack …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from the 2006 DVD edition , not the Blu-ray edition under review. In answer to the longstanding cinematic riddle that asks how you can transport your audience into a profound emotional state and move them in a way they’ve never been moved before, all while steering clear of contrivance, cheap manipulation, or sentimentality …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. I’ve never been entirely convinced that the kind of stubbornly purist realism propounded and practiced by the late John Cassavetes is as pure and effective as the often great , sometimes crackpot Mr. Cassavetes seemed to believe; it’s touching but na ve, it …