Highly Recommended The interesting, anomalous science fiction horror film The Asphyx (1973), a picture unjustly all but forgotten until recently, was the product of several converging trends.
Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials provided by HBO Films, not the Blu-ray edition under review. I have never seen the groundbreaking 1973 PBS documentary series An American Family , but I have long been aware of it; it’s often cited as the first step American TV took toward the televised “reality” that’s proven as enduringly popular as it …
Highly Recommended The Movie: In a straightforward and simple way, the cover of the Pariah Blu-ray case includes the definitions for the word that the film uses as its title. And while the definitions like “outcast” and “rejected member of society” may sound overdramatic at first, one could make the case that such interpretations are not hard to get to, and the film makes a strong case as to why …
Highly Recommended The Descendants Blu-ray Review The Descendants is a tale about families, the necessity of love, and the determinationto be capable of moving forward.
Highly Recommended One of the great things about DVD and now the Blu-ray format is how, occasionally, heretofore long-unseen movies turn out to be a lot better than their terrible reputations would suggest, diamonds in the rough, as it were. This proved true, for instance, when in 2006 Fox released to DVD their Laurel & Hardy movies from the 1940s, pictures long regarded as unfunny, painful …
DVD Talk Collector Series THE FILM: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from the DVD version included in the set, not the Blu-ray edition under review. A cinematic event years in the making, the 2010 restoration of Georges M li s’s technically pioneering, thematically prescient, eternally charming 1902 film A Trip to the Moon ( Le Voyage dans la Lune ) represents, for the …
DVD Talk Collector Series There have been far too many “reboots,” “reimaginings,” and “reimagineerings” lately. And, anyway, aren’t those terms merely euphemisms for “Sure, we’ve made truckloads of money, but we can generate even more dough starting from scratch over and marketing an ‘event,’ rather than a mere sequel”?
Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from promotional materials provided by Kino Lorber, not the Blu-ray edition under review. Celebrity profiles might seem to be one of the more disposable categories of entertainment, but like anything else, it’s all in the details and execution.
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from promotional materials and the 2009 DVD release , not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Rent It THE FILM: Whitney Houston’s first acting role was a good fit: She played international music and film superstar Rachel Marron, a vulnerable diva whose life was threatened by a crazed fan, alongside Kevin Costner as her tireless protector in Director Mick Jackson’s The Bodyguard . Critics were not kind to the film, but it raked in over $400 million in worldwide receipts and its soundtrack …