True Blood: The Complete Series (Blu-ray)
Recommended The Series: HBO's vampire fantasy/soap opera series True Blood ran seven seasons from 2008 until just this year, 2014.
November 8, 2014
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Recommended The Series: HBO's vampire fantasy/soap opera series True Blood ran seven seasons from 2008 until just this year, 2014.
DVD Talk Collector Series NOTE: The images featured here were taken from promotional materials and do not reflect the quality of the Blu-ray under review. The Movie: Like his debut film Boy Meets Girl , writer-director Leos Carax's second feature, 1986's Mauvais Sang (the literal translation is “Bad Blood,” although the UK title was The Night Is Young ), focuses on a lovesick young man named …
Recommended The Movie: Directed by filmmaker Ren Sampaio and adapted from a popular song entitled Faroeste Caboclo by Brazilian musician Renato Russo, Brazilian Western isn't really so much a western as it is a modern crime drama. It is at least set in Brazil, however, so the title isn't completely misleading! The story is set in the 1980s and follows a young man named Jo o de Santo Cristo (Fabr …
Highly Recommended NOTE: The images featured here were taken from promotional materials and do not reflect the quality of the Blu-ray under review. The Movie: Leos Carax's debut film from 1984, Boy Meets Girl , feels simultaneously of its time and utterly timeless. Shot in luminous black-and-white by Jean-Yves Escoffier ( Good Will Hunting ) and sporting a bleak sense of humor, this rumination …
Rent It The Film: Would the movie-going public even be enthusiastic about a live-action rendition of Sleeping Beauty without the perfectly-cast Angelina Jolie donning the horns, the slinky black dress, and the pearly-white grin of Maleficent? Perhaps, but given the lukewarm climate created by the reimagined tales of Snow White and Huntsman and Jack and the Giant Slayer , as well as Disney's …
Rent It The Movie: Chinese Puzzle is the third part in a series of ensemble relationship dramedies about the close-knit relationships between an eclectic group of characters from all over Europe. Their steamy adventures began with L'Auberge Espagnole , a hit in Europe in 2002, where they hooked up while living together in a small apartment in Barcelona. 2005's Russian Dolls picked up the stories …
DVD Talk Collector Series Well this is a treat! As a movie, Dragonfly Squadron (1954) is fairly ordinary, a war movie with a familiar story and genre stereotypes: hardline, humorless commanding officer; sly second-in-command, subordinate with a personal grudge against his commanding officer, a woman emotionally torn between the dedicated, self-sacrificing doctor she married and the commanding …
Recommended Adapted from Sidney “I Dream of Jeannie” Sheldon's first novel, published in 1970, The Naked Face (1984) is a fairly good little thriller, not great, but better than one would have expected from Cannon Films, a company known primarily for its Charles Bronson and Chuck Norris action-exploitation films. The Naked Face has its share of flaws and its central mystery isn't all that …
Skip It To be clear upfront: there's no question that Iceman , a Hong Kong action-comedy released in its home country in 3D, is a patently silly movie. The story follows He Ying, a Ming Dynasty royal guard, who, after being wrongfully accused of treason and sentenced to death, ends up caught in a blizzard along with his former friends and is frozen alive for 400 years, re-awakening in 2013 to a …
Rent It Not to be confused with Renny Harlin's The Legend of Hercules —and don't worry, it probably won't be—Brett Ratner's Hercules (2014) is yet another sword-and-sandal epic featuring brave warriors facing off against nigh-unstoppable evil forces.