Rent It Robotics; Notes Part 2 Blu-ray Review Robotics;Notes is ananime adaptation based uponthe visual novel video game released by the Japanese production company5pb.The story told is the third one in the game series subtitled “ScienceAdventure”and the anime realization of the story was animated by the acclaimedProductionI.G. There is also a manga series that was published in Monthly …
Highly Recommended The Movie: Roman Polanski’s 1979 adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles is an intimate epic, a story peppered with melodramatic twists of fate but presented on a distinctly human scale. The film is also a wonderful showcase for Nastassja Kinski as Tess.
Skip It THE FILM: Spike Lee goes director-for-hire in Oldboy , a handsomely shot, nicely acted but ultimately perfunctory remake of Park Chan-wook’s 2003 Korean gut-punch. Josh Brolin is the man imprisoned in a room for twenty years before being released to track down his tormentor
DVD Talk Collector Series Please Note: The screen shots used here are taken from the DVD portion of Foreign Correspondent. The Movie: “To those intrepid ones who went across the seas to be the eyes and ears of America . . .
Recommended The Augustine Interfaith Order of Hellbound Saints is a select group of ordained ministers who exist to control the demons from hell that threaten our world. The premise is a bit odd but rather simple- their main job is performing exorcisms, but spend their down-time violating the Seven Deadly Sins in order to be “damnation-ready,” so that if they aren’t able to send demons back to …
Recommended Before I begin discussing this 3D Blu-Ray release, I should first tell you that it is actually an Americanized version of the British IMAX movie Penguins 3D .
Recommended You don’t have to be staring down retirement to enjoy Jon Turtletaub’s Last Vegas (2013), especially if you’re a fan of the talent involved. Its most notable strength is the participation of Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline as the center of its ensemble cast; though none of this quartet had ever worked with one another, they carry the weight of this …
Highly Recommended The Movie: When Dawn Brancheau died at an Orlando, Florida SeaWorld in February 2010, Gabriela Cowperthwaite learned about the incident and the subsequent furor that came about afterwards, and was inspired to make a film surrounding the incident. What she found over the course of filming shocked the documentary filmmaker and former SeaWorld patron, and her attempts to document …
Rent It The front cover’s tagline is “He’s feeling renewed.” Actually, “Anger Management” already had a deal from the get-go to have about 100 episodes produced, so that feeling isn’t such a big deal. Anyways, Charlie Sheen’s sitcom has had its second season released on Blu-Ray. A brief note at the end of each episode states that it is based on the movie of the same name, but does not show any …
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