Rent It The Movie: If you're unfamiliar with Fellini's work and would like to begin somewhere, watching Satyricon first would probably be the worst choice. With Satyricon, Fellini's late 60s eccentric and experimental phase reached its peak, creating a fascinatingly yet frustratingly disconnected and incoherent oddity that resembled more of an LSD-induced fever dream sci-fi/fantasy than a …
Rent It The impending Valentine's Day release of Sam Taylor-Johnson's big-screen adaptation of the controversial E.L. James novel Fifty Shades of Grey has the internet in thinkpiece mode. Does S&M glorify abuse and violence
Rent It THE FILM: I guess 2013's V/H/S 2 represents the peak on this cinematic bell curve, as the original and this second sequel, V/H/S: Viral , are about on par with one another.
Recommended Though a majority of Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu's films share similar themes and his trademark “slow and steady” visual approach to storytelling, An Autumn Afternoon (1962) has the most in common with his 1949 drama Late Spring . Both feature a widowed patriarch living at home with a fully-grown, unmarried daughter who is prodded into seeking a husband
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Skip It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. I hoped Dracula Untold might be able to rekindle the spark of Universal's classic horror legacy. During the 1930s and 1940s, the studio released films like Dracula and Frankenstein , which are actually frightening.
Recommended Jacques Rivette's Le Pont du Nord is a strange and dream-like character study of two women drifting through Paris with a surreal sense of urgency. They meet by chance (or perhaps fate), and end up accompanying each other on a wild chase through the city, where they are both the chasers and the chased. On one level, their situation seems to involve corruption of the highest order …
Recommended The Movies: Shout! Factory's Scream Factory imprint celebrates the humorous side of the horror movie with this double dose of vampire comedy films presented on a single Blu-ray disc.
Highly Recommended Jean de Florette / Manon of the Spring – Blu-ray Review Based upon thenovel written by Marcel Pagnol, Jean de Florette and Manonofthe Spring are double-billed films which were distributed with thenotationof being Part One and Part Two respectively.
Highly Recommended Pom Poko Blu-ray Review Pom Poko is a storyrooted in Japanese folklore. This is an essentially modern fablesurroundingthe idea of magical shape-shifting raccoon dogs living in Japan.