So Undercover ( Blu – ray )
Rent It THE FILM: During the opening scenes of So Undercover , in which a borderline obnoxious Miley Cyrus scales rooftops during a private-eye gig, I assumed the worst.
Rent It THE FILM: During the opening scenes of So Undercover , in which a borderline obnoxious Miley Cyrus scales rooftops during a private-eye gig, I assumed the worst.
Rent It THE FILM: I have previously expressed how much I appreciate the wide variety of films I’ve been exposed to while writing for DVD Talk. Some of my favorite reviews to write have been for films I was not expecting to be great
Recommended The second and last Derek Flint movie, In Like Flint (1967) is widely considered inferior even by die-hard fans of the first entry, Our Man Flint (1966). Probably due to my strong dislike of the original movie, my expectations were so low there was nowhere to go but up with the second one. Overall it’s not an improvement, weaker as it is in some ways while a bit better in others, and …
Rent It Nicholas and Alexandra Blu – ray Review Nicholas and Alexandra is anambitious, sprawling, and well-meaning motion pictureabout the remaining members of the Romanov family dynasty in Russia.Thecharacters are in the thrust surrounding revolution and changes toRussiangovernment. Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and produced by SamSpiegel,…
Rent It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu – ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Most science fiction fans already know the mess that is Highlander II: The Quickening
Highly Recommended THE FILM Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition of the film under review. We’re all fairly well-accustomed by now to movies that openly, self-reflexively acknowledge their own artificiality — so many different filmmakers, from Godard to De Palma to Tarantino , have been doing it for so long, each for their own …
Recommended The spy movie craze of the mid-1960s was kaput and then some by 1972, when Innocent Bystanders was first released. And yet, while hardly a genre-shaking game-changer, it’s still significantly better than most of the 007-influenced movies that came before it, offering an occasionally amusing cynical eccentricity
Highly Recommended *All images in this review taken from the Blu-ray discs in this set. Click on all images to view full size caps.
Rent It With an industry cranking out more product faster than ever, “middle class” cinema has all but disappeared, Between the major blockbusters and studio “independents,” there used to be a range of $20 and $30m comedies and dramas to help round out a studio’s release schedule, but these days such films are generally doomed to a DVD premiere, despite a cast and crew that would’ve warranted a …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from the 1997 standard-definition DVD edition , not the Blu-ray edition under review. It’s rare enough for a fondly-remembered but not recently revisited film to even live up to our lingering, benevolent but hazy recollections of it; it’s rarer still for that film to surpass them and reveal further wellsprings of …