Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Over a decade in the making, Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln is a meticulous, accomplished dramatization of the Great Emancipator’s push to enact the Thirteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution before the end of the Civil War
Skip It Before the wide adoption of DVD and Blu-Ray, it seemed like there was a sense that other countries were making much better movies than America. A Run Lola Run here, an Oldboy there, and suddenly foreign film became a movie-geek magnet
Recommended The Movie: Directed by Peter Chan in 2011, Dragon (retitled for release in North America by the Weinsteins for some reason, the original title was Wu-Xia ) stars Donnie Yen as a man named Liu Jin-xi. He’s lived in the same small town for about ten years now, having married a local single mother named Ayu (Tang Wei) and set up shop in town making paper. Together he and his wife are …
Rent It Yann Arthus-Bertrand and Michael Pitiot’s Planet Ocean (2012), like many eco-minded documentaries, wants to captivate our senses while attempting to get its message across.
Skip It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu – ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Marlon Wayans built his career on irreverent spoof comedies, with performances in Scary Movie and its sequel, both of which Wayans’ brother, Keenen Ivory Wayans, directed.
Skip It THE MOVIE: Please Note: The images used here are taken from the standard-definition DVD included with this release, not the Blu – ray edition under review. My favorite conceit of movies about authors is that they always have said authors sitting around with others of their kind making grand pronouncements about their craft and inflating what is one of the world’s most boring professions to …
Rent It In Hong Kong, where non-organized prostitution is already legal, many women further blur the line by offering their services for Paid Dates, in which they have the freedom to choose who they go out with, what they do, and whether or not they’ll sleep with their clients. Girl$ follows four women involved in the Paid Date game: Lin (Una Lin), a veteran employee who feels she has a special …
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Highly Recommended Whoever saves one life saves the world entire. – Talmud (paraphrase) THE SERIES: Click an image to view Blu – ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. The BBC’s crackling historical drama Ripper Street picks up six months after Jack the Ripper, arguably history’s most infamous serial killer, murdered at least five prostitutes in London’s Whitechapel district.
Rent It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu – ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Catherine Hardwicke is a polarizing director, and her projects are all over the map.