Rent It The Movie: Approaching a film that was based on a Stephanie Meyer novel can be a dicey proposition. The woman behind the Twilight series of books that later spawned a series of films that scores of women young and old flocked to is attempting to break out into ground past that cast shadow. And while The Host shares its name with the 2006 Korean horror film, one could very well assert …
Highly Recommended At Long Last Love (1975), unavailable for decades and regarded as one of the great cinematic calamities of the ’70s is, at long last, out on Blu-ray and available for reassessment. Ultimately, the picture doesn’t quite gel like it should, but neither is it anywhere near as bad as its reputation would suggest
Recommended The Movie: The directorial debut of Eric Red (who also wrote), 1989’s Cohen And Tate begins at a farm, looking as serene and peaceful as you’d expect, except for the armed guards surrounding the house.
Highly Recommended The Movie: With the news of the day covering things like America’s security agencies monitoring their citizens’ phone calls and communications in various electronic forms, the Oscar-nominated Dror Moreh documentary The Gatekeepers couldn’t see a better time for a video release. Moreh interviewed the last six former directors of the Shin Bet, the principal security organization …
Rent It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. 21 & Over is not the first comedy to replicate the formula from The Hangover in hopes of striking box office gold. Nor am I the first reviewer to say that 21 & Over is likely only appealing to those 21 and under.
Highly Recommended During the early 1930s, ambitious comedy producer Hal Roach, anxious to move away from the two-reel comedies for which he was famous, decided that his ticket to bigger and better things lay in feature-length, lavishly costumed adaptations of operettas. And yet the resulting, dramatically wobbly films, Fra Diavolo , Babes in Toyland , and The Bohemian Girl , would be forgotten …
Recommended Alice (Juno Temple) and John (Michael Angarano) are young and in love. Wait, scratch that: let’s go with “young, in love, and flat broke” instead. That’s what overpriced, [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] Read the entire review
Skip It In 10 Words or Less An all-star sketch comedy mess Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Sketch movies, Emma Stone Likes: Many of this film’s stars Dislikes: Potty humor Hates: Lazy filmmaking The Movie You know that thing where when a kid does something wrong, and the parent says “I’m not mad. I’m just disappointed”
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DVD Talk Collector Series THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. After unsuccessfully pitching The Producers to several studios and directors, Mel Brooks decided to direct the project – then titled Springtime for Hitler – himself