Recommended The Movie Note: the images accompanying this review are used for illustrative purposes only and do not reflect the contents of the Ministry of Fear Blu – ray . Ministry of Fear ‘s sturdily entertaining noir must have been as much of a “sure thing” as possible from the moment it first got the green light. After all, this handsomely mounted Paramount production was directed by Fritz Lang …
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
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 …
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 …
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.
DVD Talk Collector Series All’s Well That Ends Well, at least for the 1970 film version of William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar . Not a great success when it was new, this Panavision production had previously been released to DVD by Lions Gate/Artisan in 2004 and 2007, both times utilizing the same old, genuinely ugly and unpardonably panned-and-scanned video master.
Highly Recommended Anna Karenina is the latest adaptation to be filmed of Leo Tolstoy’s classic and acclaimed novel. This time around the film auteur and director bringing it all together for the big-screen is none other than the spectacularly gifted Joe Wright ( Pride and Prejudice , Atonement ), who brings with him an unusual and unique approach to the source material by turning it into …
Alex Cross is the third film to feature the title character and star of the best-selling mystery and thriller series of novels written by James Patterson. In the first two films the character was portrayed by Morgan Freeman and this time around he is played by Tyler Perry in a reboot/prequel…