Recommended Like most folks born during the last several decades, I grew up watching syndicated Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies whenever possible. These bite-sized cartoons set the bar extremely high for American animation during the 20th century, rivaled only by other long-running classics like Popeye the Sailor Read the entire review
Recommended Audrey Rose Blu-ray Review Audrey Rose is a 1977 supernatural-horrordrama fromacclaimed filmmaker Robert Wise ( The Sound of Music , TheHaunting ).The film was released to mixed reviews upon release as it was comparedto TheExorcist (though not in a positive way by most: it wassuggested as a inspiredattempt at remaking or 'cashing-in' on the success of the film). The story of the film …
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Recommended The Movie: Despite trying constantly, poor Niko ( Generation War 's Tom Schilling) finds himself unable to procure a cup of coffee during the twenty-four hours or so that unfold in Jan Ole Gerster's debut feature, A Coffee In Berlin (retitled from the original: Oh Boy ). This failure turns out to be emblematic of the many misfortunes that befall him during this short period.
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. The filmmakers behind this 1988 remake of The Blob understand how ridiculous a giant gelatinous killer really is. Chuck Russell directs from a script co-written by Frank Darabont, and The Blob embraces its B-movie mentality like a long-lost lover returned
Recommended THE FILM: The filmmakers behind this 1988 remake of The Blob understand how ridiculous a giant gelatinous killer really is. Chuck Russell directs from a script co-written by Frank Darabont, and The Blob embraces its B-movie mentality like a long-lost lover returned. Thirty years of special effects maturation allows this remake to up the gory ante, and The Blob is delightfully over …
Rent It THE FILM: Sorry, Clint, you are not the right director for Jersey Boys . The Tony Award-winning stage musical about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons is hilarious, toe-tapping fun, but something gets lost in translation in this film adaptation.
Skip It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. The 1988 Dutch/French thriller The Vanishing is intense and devastating; a harrowing portrait of evil. Director George Sluizer remade the film for American audiences in 1993, but this retelling is sanitized, overacted and dull
Highly Recommended Content: With the combination of the Director of the fim, Hiroyuki Okiura, whom has worked on powerhouses such as Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade, Akira, Cowboy Bebop: The Movie, and The Evangelion and Ghost in the Shell franchises, and the animation/production studio behind Attack on Titan, Eden of the East, FLCL, every Ghost in the Shell anime, and Psycho-Pass , Letter to Momo …
Recommended The Movie: Frontera is an issue-based ensemble melodrama that manages to extract enough emotion to get its points through while staying fairly levelheaded. It's not a masterpiece by any means and suffers from some of the technical and narrative issues that usually plague a first time feature director, but it's also nowhere near as preachy and pretentious as similar efforts like Babel …