Highly Recommended Easter Parade Blu – ray Review Irving Berlin’s EasterParade is one of the greatest film musicals. The film stars JudyGarland,Fred Astaire, Peter Lawford, and Ann Miller and each performer bringssome oftheir greatest work to this “parade” of shows, featuring Academy Awardwinningmusic through adapted music score arranged by Johnny Green and RogerEdens. Easter Parade is one of the …
Rent It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu – ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Most science fiction fans already know the mess that is Highlander II: The Quickening
Highly Recommended THE FILM Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition of the film under review. We’re all fairly well-accustomed by now to movies that openly, self-reflexively acknowledge their own artificiality — so many different filmmakers, from Godard to De Palma to Tarantino , have been doing it for so long, each for their own …
Recommended Like Network and several other films before and since, Paul Michael Glaser’s The Running Man (1987) seemed far-fetched decades ago…but it hits a little closer to home these days.
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. The 1941 winner of the Best Picture Oscar, How Green Was My Valley is one of John Ford’s nostalgic tributes to a foreign land and a foreign time. Narrated from a modern vantage point, but set in a Welsh mining village at the outset of the 20th Century, the …
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. It’s rare to find a film as sincere and assured in its emotional intent as Ann Hui’s celebrated A Simple Life
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Rarely does a modern horror film fill me with the kind of dread that makes pedestrian scenes feel ripe for a jolt
Highly Recommended The Movie: Also known as Army Of One , stunt coordinator Vic Armstrong’s feature film directorial debut is 1993’s Joshua Tree , a starring vehicle for the mighty Dolph Lundgren who made this film right after finishing up Universal Soldier . In the movie, Lundgren plays a truck driver named Wellman Santee. When we meet him, he and his partner Eddie (Ken Foree) are in the middle …
Recommended The Movie: Like many people, I really enjoyed the first few seasons of Weeds , though as the seasons kept mounting, their welcome became more and more overstayed. My wife hung in for the show a little longer than most (something that she has a trait for, perhaps as some loyalty or faith in the characters), but even she threw up her hands around the show’s sixth season. Maybe the show …
Highly Recommended The Movie: “To a handful of unforgettable motion picture triumphs, Elia Kazan now adds an event of the first magnitude… the powerful, smoldering story of the New South… of the wild river that captured the attention of the entire world…