Recommended The Movie: Gary Cooper stars in 1951's sort-of-western (southeastern?) Distant Drums , an independently produced action thriller that plops a small group of soldiers in the middle of the Florida Everglades during the Second Seminole War. Forced to cope with the harsh swamp, while dodging hungry gators and murderous Seminoles, the soldiers trudge their way back to their ship after …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. I try to refrain from calling a movie “The Next…” something when writing these reviews
Rent It Few directors have had careers as unusual and eclectic as filmmaker Monte Hellman. Probably best known for Two-Lane Blacktop and his most recent feature film, Road to Nowhere , as well as producing Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs , Hellman was one of many filmmakers mentored by Roger Corman, and Hellman's early work includes titles like Beast From Haunted Cove and The Terror (in 1989 …
Recommended Before 1950, nearly all of the best Westerns were in black-and-white. Partly this was the law of averages, as the vast majority of pre-1950 Westerns were produced in black-and-white to begin with. But other than a few notable exceptions (John Ford's She Wore a Yellow Ribbon , for instance), pre-1950 Technicolor Westerns generally played it safe.
Rent It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Director Paul Haggis has struggled to repeat the success he had with ensemble drama Crash , which won the Academy Award for the best picture of 2005.
Highly Recommended The Series: While Starz released the four different storylines of their smash hit series Spartacus individually on Blu-ray and DVD over the past few years, they've now assembled all of that material into one Complete Series boxed set release. And just to drive collector types crazy, there are some exclusive extra features included in this set that aren't available on those …
Recommended Looking at the Blu-ray cover for Last Passenger , one might feel bad for Dougray Scott.
Recommended Note : Although screencaps should only be considered an idea of what the disc looks like, click any capture in this review to expand the image to a full size .png. When a noble lord named Arnolfini (Fernando Hilbeck) is forced out of his castle, he turns to his army, led by Sergeant Hawkwood (Jack Thompson), to help him get it back.
Highly Recommended The Originals Season 1 Blu-ray Review The Originals is a spin-off series baseduponcharacters created and introduced in The Vampire Diaries , andit is acreation of writer Julie Plec, who is the head-writer and showrunner ofbothseries. The concept of the show revolves around a group of charactersreferredto as being the 'originals' – i.e.
Skip It The Movie: Did you ever play this game with your friends as a child? You and your buddies sit around in a circle, each of you write a paragraph of a short story, fold it, then another kid writes the next paragraph without seeing what comes before it.