Trust (Blu-ray)
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials and filmmaker Hal Hartley’s website , not the Blu-ray edition under review.
January 23, 2013
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Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials and filmmaker Hal Hartley’s website , not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Rent It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. In an interview for Taken 2 , Liam Neeson said he didn’t want to make a “sloppy sequel.” I guess that didn’t quite work out, Liam. Pierre Morel’s original Taken is an unexpectedly great thriller with solid characters and an interesting story to support its slick action.
Highly Recommended A pretty good B-Western featuring John Wayne, very early in his starring career, The New Frontier (1935) breaks no new ground but is well made for its budget level. Indeed, it’s fairly lavish by Republic Pictures’ standards, the studio then just getting started itself, the company having been founded earlier that year when Consolidated Film Laboratories president Herbert J …
Rent It Hollywood’s [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] hottest horror director is about to learn the true meaning of terror!!!!! Read the entire review
Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less Immature comedy for mature people – now on Blu-Ray Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Animation, unusual art style Likes: Anime, T&A comedy Dislikes: Weak puns, potty humor Hates: Sex-shy anime characters The Show When I saw a trailer for Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt , I was immediately hooked, and not because of the promise of a sex-filled romp offered by the …
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. You’d be forgiven for forgetting Resident Evil: Retribution’s super generic subtitle, as it may as well be called “This Year’s Resident Evil 3D.” This is the fifth Milla Jovovich-lead film in the franchise, and directly follows the events of last year’s Resident Evil: Afterlife , which marked the return of …
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Recommended The Movie: The Paperboy is based on a 1995 pulp novel by Pete Dexter, who Sacramentans may recognize from his Sacramento Bee column in the 1980s. The screenplay was written by Dexter along with director Lee Daniels
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the 2002 DVD release of the film, not the Blu-ray edition under review. In the spring of 1990, Disney was pushing Dick Tracy , Warren Beatty’s big-screen adaptation of the iconic Chester Gould comic strip, with a torrent of merchandise and publicity
Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are from the included DVD edition, not the Blu-ray version. If, at the time of late 2008’s contentious presidential election and brutal economic meltdown, you’d told me that current events would, come 2012 and via HBO, give rise to a scenario in which L.A