Skip It The Movie: Very Good Girls is a feature-length soap opera full of characters devoid of any depth or personality, occupying a meandering, unfocused screenplay without anything of value to say.
DVD Talk Collector Series Man Hunt (1941) is a terrific, tense thriller directed by Fritz Lang and released about six months prior to America's entry into the Second World War. That made it one of a handful of anti-Nazi Hollywood movies ( Confessions of a Nazi Spy , Foreign Correspondent , and A Yank in the R.A.F.
Recommended Gangster Nick (Simon Oakland), referring to Toby's (Elvis Presley) na vet : “Is he kidding?” Gangster Carmine (Jack Kruschen), exasperated : “I just don't know anymore.” A lesser Elvis movie that breaks away somewhat from the usual formula, Follow That Dream (1962) unwisely casts The King as a painfully stupid country bumpkin along the lines of Gomer Pyle.
Recommended The Movie: A cable car leaves a dark station. The static camera from inside the car shows an old man with a young boy sitting side-by-side, looking at the beautiful green scenery as the car climbs to its location. During the entire 10-minute ride, the old man and the boy don't speak to each other as we hear the sounds of the cable car ride reverberate around us as if we're a part of …
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. Peter Sellers reteams with his Pink Panther co-conspirator Blake Edwards to cut loose and indulge their love of silent film comedies. The concept for The Party is something Chaplin or Keaton could have done wonders with, and though the …
Highly Recommended The Movie: Every once in a while, a random movie we pick, a movie we don't know much about besides the poster or the cover art and a brief blurb about the plot will genuinely surprise us. Just going by the Blu-Ray cover, Hal The Movie looks like one of those overly cutesy anime shows or movies I'm usually not interested in. I'm not a huge fan of anime, but I do appreciate some …
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Ivan Reitman steps outside his comfort zone of zany comedies to direct his best project in years, Draft Day , which explores the behind-the-scenes dealings of a fictional NFL Draft. Like Moneyball before it, Draft Day makes accessible drama of a fairly technical process.
DVD Talk Collector Series Any good film critic/historian worth his salt tries to experience as many movies of all kinds as humanly possible. One simply can't write intelligently about Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976) without an awareness of the influences of John Ford's seminal John Wayne Western The Searchers (1956), for instance, just as The Right Stuff (1983) is essentially a brilliant …
Skip It THE MOVIE: Oh, American history! So full of passion, intrigue, and even more passion. What a soap opera you are! How many crises were solved with longing looks across wooden tables
Highly Recommended The Movie: Directed by the late, great special effects titan Stan Winston (his first feature as a director) based on the poem by Ed Justin, 1988's Pumpkinhead is the tragic tale of a man named Ed Harley (Lance Henriksen) who owns and operates a local grocery store in the deep south.