Recommended Billy Rose’s Jumbo (1962) was for many of its participants the end of the line. It was star Doris Day’s last musical, innovative choreographer-director Busby Berkeley’s last movie, and co-star Jimmy Durante’s last major film role
Highly Recommended An anomaly among early 70s horror films, The Other (1972) was directed by and starring actors with little genre experience. Certain aspects of the film don’t quite work but in many other ways the film is genuinely unsettling and original. Its premise in some aspects anticipates The Omen (1976), also produced by 20th Century-Fox and featuring a score by Jerry Goldsmith, though …
Rent It The Movie: Director Giorgio Serafini, who recently directed Dolph Lundgren, Gianni Capaldi and Vinnie Jones in the fairly disappointing Blood Of Redemption goes some ways towards redeeming himself with this next in the three picture deal that will see the three action stars on screen together. The story, written by Agustin (who evidently doesn’t need a last name) is set in Los Angeles …
Highly Recommended The Movie: When Dawn Brancheau died at an Orlando, Florida SeaWorld in February 2010, Gabriela Cowperthwaite learned about the incident and the subsequent furor that came about afterwards, and was inspired to make a film surrounding the incident. What she found over the course of filming shocked the documentary filmmaker and former SeaWorld patron, and her attempts to document …
Highly Recommended The Film : Neil Jordan’s Byzantium emerges just as the recurrent vampire “craze” has started to lower back into its grave, where those popular franchises that capitalized on the trend have either wrapped up or are settling into a formulaic reputation out of the spotlight. Instead of clashing with conventions that everyone knows and relishes, this marks an ideal time for …
DVD Talk Collector Series Cassavetes Set – Five Films – Blu-ray Ifyou havenever seen a film by John Cassavetes before you might wonder why somefilmsfans have become so enamored by his movies. The works of Cassavetes areoftendescribed as being the “truth” — films that manage to bring  real acting, emotion, and stories to thecinema.
Rent It Perhaps spurred on by the success of the hit Discovery Channel program “Deadliest Catch” (which makes an “appearance” here), Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel climbed on board a New England fishing boat to film Leviathan , a nearly wordless 90-minute documentary. Captured on GoPro cameras mounted on sticks, the movie has no traditional narrative, no interviews, no obvious …
Highly Recommended Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira (1988) was more or less my first exposure to Japanese animation. A friend of mine, who had spent several years of his childhood in Japan, owned both domestic VHS versions of the film in the early 1990s: one was subtitled, the other was dubbed in English. Not surprisingly, the film’s mature subject matter, intense atmosphere and jaw-dropping visuals …
Rent It The Movie: Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson have done various things since they struck comedic and cinematic gold when they co-starred in the 2005 smash hit Wedding Crashers .
DVD Talk Collector Series Mama’s Family: The Complete Collection is the single best vintage television DVD release of the year. I love writing that. Good Lord the “Joe Hamilton” cuts are finally here! StarVista Entertainment and TimeLife, through Warner Brothers, have released Mama’s Family: The Complete Collection , a 7-volume, 24-disc, 130-episode collection of the cult sitcom’s entire run …