Highly Recommended The Blu-ray cover art touts The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh as “The Original Classic,” an ironic proclamation considering that this 1977 animated feature is actually a compilation of three earlier featurettes with original bridging material and a new ending. Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966, originally shown with The Ugly Dachshund ) came first, followed by …
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. When I heard that Brad Pitt and World War Z director Marc Forster were not speaking as they feverishly re-shot the third act of this $190-million action film I expected the worst
Highly Recommended Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Originally shot to ride the masked-killer coattails of Halloween , Sean S. Cunningham’s Friday the 13th was a surprise hit for distributor Paramount and sparked a legacy of sequels, merchandise and Camp Crystal L..
Highly Recommended Fairy Tail – Part 5 Blu-ray Review Click onan image to view the Blu-rayscreenshot with 1080p resolution TheSeries: Read the entire review
DVD Talk Collector Series In 10 Words or Less A day in the life of Austin, Texas Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Day in the life stories, quirky films, The Criterion Collection Likes: Richard Linklater, 90s indie cinema, the Austin concept Dislikes: Slackers Hates: Missing bonus content The Movie Richard Linklater’s sprawling journey through the city of Austin, Texas is a paradox, loaded to the brim …
Recommended The Movie: Make no mistake, Andrew Lau’s The Guillotines is an epic tale of honor, brotherhood, sacrifice and betrayal, set in Qing Dynasty era China. There are enough sword fights, chases through crowded streets and sprawling battles to satisfy any action aficionado. However, it’s also a bit confusing and incoherent, and leans a bit too heavily on bathos.
Rent It Star Trek is the most popular franchise in movie and television history, so it makes sense that it’s been treated well in high definition. Two of the five Trek TV series are currently in the middle of a successful Blu-ray campaign, including a complete overhaul of Read the entire review
DVD Talk Collector Series Charulata (1964), previously known as The Lonely Wife , is the protagonist of Indian director Satyajit Ray’s straightforward and exquisitely acted humanist drama about a bored, creatively stifled wife whose carefree cousin-in-law inspires her but also threatens her marriage. Adapted from Rabindranath Tagore’s novella The Empty Nest , it’s a simple humanist drama very …
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. Comedy can be serious business, particularly when it is making light of dark subjects. When Mel Brooks made The Producers in 1967, two decades after World War II, he met resistance from people who didn’t think Hitler and his Nazis should be …
Recommended Producer Walter Mirisch’s Midway (1976) cleverly presented a huge scale, all-star (Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum, James Coburn, etc.) war movie on a deceptively modest budget, a fraction of the cost of movies like Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) and A Bridge Too Far (1977). Where those movies recreated epic battles full-scale, with thousands of extras and real military …