Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less It’s not about whether you win or lose Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: David Fincher, The Game , The Criterion Collection Likes: Michael Douglas, Conspiracy theories Dislikes: Hates: The Criterion laserdiscs we don’t have on DVD/Blu-Ray The Movie On any average day, if you asked me what David Fincher’s first film was, I would probably say The Game . Se7en , his …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials and stills provided by The Criterion Collection, not the Blu-ray edition under review. With such films as Le Jour se l ve , Port of Shadows , and Les Enfants du paradis ( Children of Paradise ) studding his rich filmography, French director Marcel Carn proved himself time and time again to be …
Rent It THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. I remember the print ads for Eating Raoul from when I was a kid. Even in black-and-white in the newspaper, the big lips seemed somehow dirty to me.
Skip It The Movie: White Vengeance , in the promotional materials, states that it’s part of the ‘Red Cliff’ saga, but at a much earlier point in that time line. Whether it references the John Woo’s Red Cliff or the historical one is up for debate. What White Vengeance does is pit to friends up against each other all over the love of a woman.
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials and a prior review of the Blu-ray by DVD Savant , not the Blu-ray disc under review. More gripping, succinct, and troubling than almost any picture made in the Hollywood studios’ golden age, Fred Zinnemann’s 1952 Western High Noon is a starker, more thoughtful example of the genre than many of its …
Rent It The Movie: Having just seen The American President recently on Blu-ray, it did make me remember that it has been awhile since I had seen the Presidential comedy Dave . I am not entirely sure why I have skipped this over the years, maybe it was the concept behind the story or the story itself
Rent It *CLICK on all images to enlarge. These screenshots have been taken from the Blu-ray and ARE indicative of what you’ll see at home. Growing up, I wasn’t all about the family friendly stuff.
Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the DVD copy included in this package, not the Blu-ray under review. Probably the easiest modern comparison to the Cinerama film process is the IMAX theaters, particularly the true IMAX experience that you find at museums around the country, with the curved ceilings. In fact, Windjammer: The Voyage of the Christian Radich …
Highly Recommended *All images in this review taken from the Blu-ray discs in this set. Click on all images to view full size caps
Recommended [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] The overture plays as the audience begins to settle into their seats. After a few minutes of that lovely music, the curtains start to pull back. Read the entire review