Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Midway through Pain & Gain , as the Rock is grilling some human hands and feet over a charcoal grill, a title card appears informing the audience that “This is still a true story.” This mid-’90s set slice of Bayhem is based on true events, chronicled in several Miami New Times articles and a book by …
DVD Talk Collector Series The Blu-ray of the fifth and final season of The Dick Van Dyke Show (1965-66) brings to a close individual season sets previously available only as part of a complete series Blu-ray boxed set, released late last fall.
Recommended The Movie: For a while there in the late ’70s and very early ’80s, American pop culture was in the grips of deja vu: the cinemas offered Grease and The Buddy Holly Story , Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley had us in stitches, and seemingly every other song on the radio was a smoothed-out Golden Oldie (thanks for nothing, Linda Ronstadt). Somehow lost in this poodle-skirted shuffle was …
Rent It THE FILM Please Note: The images used here are photos provided by Sony Pictures Classics and do not directly reflect the picture quality of the Blu-ray edition under review. Without a doubt, writer/director Ramin Bahrani ( Chop Shop , Goodbye Solo ) has a head on his shoulders and a thoughtful engagement with the impact of our social, political, cultural, and economic climate and its …
Recommended Fairy Tail – Part 5 Blu-ray Review Click onan image to view the Blu-rayscreenshot with 1080p resolution Read the entire review
DVD Talk Collector Series “I wish my head could forget what my eyes have seen.” “Thirty [fires] a night for thirty years. That’s how you burn a city down.” “I feel like I’m in the burning of Rome” – Firefighters of Engine Co
Highly Recommended THE FILM Please Note: The images used here are taken from photos provided by the Cohen Film Collection and promotional materials, and do not directly reflect the picture quality of the Blu-ray edition under review. The French director Andr T chin , like his more internationally famous filmmaking countrymen Fran ois Truffaut , Jean-Luc Godard , Eric Rohmer , and Read the entire …
Highly Recommended Love Me Tender (1956) was 21-year-old Elvis Presley’s very first movie.
Highly Recommended The Movie: Everyone enjoys Matthew McConaughey as a bit of a loose spoke on the bicycle wheel and hope that he does a Dave Wooderson with each movie role. But somewhat quietly, the last few roles he has brought his A game to his performances, whether it has been as a morally corrupt lawyer or a scout for the Texas Rangers or the owner of a strip club.
Skip It THE FILM Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials provided by Music Box Films and do not directly reflect the picture quality of the Blu-ray edition under review. A few years back, there was a glossy, nasty little Joel Schumacher picture, 8mm , that, while just the kind of tawdry, rancid experience one had by then come to expect from Schumacher, at least had …