Highly Recommended Director Richard Lester’s Royal Flash (1975) was a relatively late-comer to DVD, being released by Twentieth Century-Fox Home Entertainment in 2007, full of extra features and a fine video transfer, but all but dumped onto the marketplace with little-to-no fanfare.
Recommended The Beast Within (1982) is a pretty terrible, at times unsavory, but slickly made horror film with an especially good cast of character actors. You might not recognize Ronny Cox, Bibi Besch, Don Gordon, R.G
Recommended The Movie: Written and directed by Paul Schrader, the 1982 remake of Jacques Tourner’s 1942 picture Cat People definitely takes things in its own direction, in fact there really aren’t a whole lot of similarities between the two outside of the basic concept. This more modern take introduces us to a beautiful young woman named Irene Gallier (Nastassia Kinski) whose adoptive parents …
Rent It Reviewed by Glenn Erickson The early and middle 1960s were the real boom years for American-International Pictures, when their “Beach Party” movie series was pulling down high rentals and Vincent Price horror pictures were being reviewed as prestige productions. A.I.P
Rent It THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. When I worked at an indie video store some time ago, a customer once told me, “The more famous people in a movie you’ve never heard of, the less chance it has to be good.” Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Jane Mansfield’s Car , actor Billy Bob …
Rent It THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. I’m a bit stymied how to even begin approaching this one
Rent It Himalaya Blu-ray Review Himalaya is acritically acclaimed film from director Eric Valli,which went on to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at theAcademyAwards during the original year of release in 1999. …
Highly Recommended Most people with any knowledge of rock music (or Martin Scorsese’s movies) can summon The Rolling Stones’ “Gimme Shelter” to mind. Powerful riffs, Mick Jagger, and a woman, belting out the memorable lyric, “it’s just a shot away” at the top of her lungs. Merry Clayton generally got her work doing back-up vocals, and she’s not alone: 20 Feet From Stardom interviews a whole …
DVD Talk Collector Series For once the tag lines were accurate: “Wild. Wonderful. Sinful.
Recommended Much like director Neil Blomkamp’s debut film, District 9 (2009), sophomore effort Elysium (2013) is anything but an exercise in subtlety. Both present a sci-fi facade that masks heavy undercurrents of timeless social and political commentary, including class warfare and the threat of oppressive authority. But unlike its bug-minded older brother, Elysium trades in apartheid for …