Recommended Mood Indigo Blu-ray Review Mood Indigo is a 2013 French film made bytheacclaimed filmmaker Michel Gondry ( Eternal Sunshine of the SpotlessMind , The Science of Sleep ). It is an adaptation of the novel writtenfromauthor Boris Vian entitled Froth on the Daydream , which was apopularFrench novel which appealed to both children and adults throughoutseveralgenerations.
Highly Recommended Sam Whiskey (1969) turns out to be a pleasant surprise.
Rent It Step Up All In Blu-ray Review The fifth entry in the Step Up film series(whichdebuted in 2006), Step Up All In reunites some of the fanfavoritescharacters and brings characters together from several of the StepUp films into the new storyline. This entry establishes itself in such away thatreturning fans can enjoy revisiting their favorite characters and newaudiencemembers can still …
Recommended Filmed in North Braddock, Pennsylvania (just outside of Pittsburgh) Scott Cooper’s Out of the Furnace (2013) examines a handful of characters in a town crippled by a failing economy, their own bad choices and/or quite a bit of bad luck. Our central characters are Russell (Christian Bale) and Rodney Baze (Casey Affleck), two brothers who have taken decidedly different paths in life …
DVD Talk Collector Series Reviewed by Glenn Erickson How does one write a critical review of a movie that plays as nothing less than perfect? It was a shock when, after receiving ten Academy Award nominations, David O.
Recommended The Movie: Directed by Joe Massot (who would later make The Song Remains The Same ) in 1968, Wonderwall is noteworthy for being the first movie that George Harrison did the music for. The storyline, such as it is, follows a strange fifty-something man named Professor Oscar Collins (Jack MacGowran) who lives all alone in his apartment
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. William Wyler’s 1942 drama Mrs.
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The screen shots used here are from the 2007 DVD edition, not the Blu-ray under review. Monte Hellman’s dazed, stoically gorgeous 1971 film Two-Lane Blacktop is another one of those nuggets from the storied American cinema of the ’70s that easily proves what’s by now a commonplace among movie buffs — that it was a time when the frantic desperation of …
Highly Recommended I must have first seen Dark Star in 1978 or ’79, four or five years its original theatrical release. Star Wars (1977), of course, had been a big hit, and probably distributor Jack H. Harris thought Dark Star could attract college-age kids starved for more space swashbuckling, or something.
Highly Recommended An old-fashioned adventure about mercenaries uncomfortably set amid present-day African political strife, The Wild Geese (1978) delivers the goods and then some, with plenty of exciting action. The film encountered uninformed protests when it was new wrongly labeling it as fascist, while in America poor distribution sabotaged it from becoming the great success it might …