Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less The eye is the window to the story Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: The Criterion Collection, good monologues Likes: Spalding Gray, Steven Soderbergh Dislikes: Hates: Anything bad involving eyes The Movie Thanks to a bootleg VHS tape of Gray’s Anatomy I first discovered Spalding Gray in college, while a performance of his It’s a Slippery Slope at Lincoln Center …
Rent It The premise of Bad Ass — a riff on the “Epic Beard Man” viral video with Danny Trejo as the ass-whupper — suggests a certain kind of movie: a goofy, modern Death Wish with over-the-top action. Unfortunately, the budget and a mixed bag of ideas and influences pull the film in so many opposing directions that it ends up going nowhere at all, stalling between a less-outrageous Machete and …
DVD Talk Collector Series Reviewed by Glenn Erickson These days anyone wanting to learn about the Beatles or to see endless fascinating film and videotape from their career(s) need only consult the many documentaries available, or just cruise the web. But back in the 1960s we teenaged Beatle fans had access to their records and little more
Recommended Just a few short weeks after signing the lease on their dream apartment in New York City, George (Paul Rudd) and Linda (Jennifer Aniston) are forced to leave it behind when George’s company is raided by the FBI and HBO decides to pass on Linda’s latest passion project (a documentary about penguins suffering from testicular cancer). Professionally adrift and financially unstable, it …
Recommended “Let’s kick some ass.” That’s preeeeeeeetty much the plot summary for Red Scorpion right there too. Red Scorpion , filmed after that one-two punch of Rocky IV and Masters of the Universe , stars Dolph Lundgren as Soviet Spetsnaz soldier Read the entire review
Recommended As Clint Eastwood movies go, Blood Work (2002) is decidedly minor.
Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: All of the images used here are from the accompanying standard-definition DVD and are not taken from the Blu-ray under review.
Skip It THE FILM: Please Note: All of the images used here are from the accompanying standard-definition DVD and are not taken from the Blu-ray under review. Director Curtis Hanson’s Emmy-nominated 2011 HBO film, Too Big to Fail , sounded so potentially promising. Sure, Hanson has had a checkered career, but it’s had more than its share of peaks, encompassing such worthy accomplishments as L.A …
DVD Talk Collector Series THE FILM: Please Note: All of the images used here are from promotional materials and are not taken from the Blu-ray under review. Astutely predicting the outcry that would surely erupt from various Charlie Chaplin purists and completists were they to have put out only one Gold Rush or the other, Criterion is now releasing the 1925 classic as what amounts to one Blu-ray …
Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are promotional and are not taken from the Blu-ray under review. There’s no getting around the fact that P. David Ebersole’s Hit So Hard , a documentary on Patty Schemel, former drummer for the band Hole, is inherently going to have very different levels of appeal based on factors unrelated to how good and interesting the film is (and this …