Skip It Entering the picture to James Bond-style guitar riffs, and quickly dispensing of a few nobodies without messing up his nice suit or slick shades, there’s no question that Mandrill (Marko Zaror) is a cool character in the mind of director/writer Ernesto D az Espinoza. The mind of the viewer is another story. Zaror is a talented martial artist with some eye-popping moves in his arsenal …
Recommended THE SERIES: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from promotional materials provided by PBS, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from promotional materials provided by Fox Searchlight, not the Blu-ray edition under review. Sean Durkin’s Martha Marcy May Marlene is the kind of film that, in a better world, would be showered with Oscars and have the whole culture (not just the little patch of movie-reviewer land that, for example, yours truly …
Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the opera’s promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Skip It Yeah, yeah, I get that Reindeer Games isn’t supposed to be good in the sense of…you know, anything, ever…but I couldn’t resist grabbing a copy of the flick on Blu-ray anyway. Maybe it makes me [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] a…
Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less Animated adventure with a hint of humor Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Good animation, Salma Hayek, Zach Galifianakis Likes: Action comedy, Antonio Banderas, the Shreck franchise Dislikes: Wasted talent Hates: Humpty Dumpty The Movie Though your humble reviewer has watched all four Shrek films, and enjoyed them to various degrees, outside of the first one, none …
Recommended The Movie: Christine (Ann Michelle from Pete Walker’s House Of Whipcord ) and Betty (Vicki Michelle who played Yvette in the BBC’s Allo Allo ) are two sultry sisters who have just left home and made their way to the swinging London of the early 1970s. They hitch a ride into town with Johnny (Keith Buckley of Dr. Phibes Rises Again ), a hip young man who puts the girls up at his pad …
Highly Recommended The Movie: Age of Heroes is the new WWII film starring Sean Bean and Danny Dyer as Ian Flemings agents of freedom and part of his “30 Commando Assault Unit.” Danny Dyer plays the role of Cpl. Bob Raynes who after a prolonged firefight in which most of his unit is decimated is quickly sent off to a UK military boot camp for punishment, and from what I gather, “retraining.” He …
Highly Recommended Rebecca (1940) is one of three Alfred Hitchcock movies MGM/Fox has released to Blu-ray, the others being Spellbound (1945) and Notorious (1946).
Highly Recommended The Movie: Here’s a film that threw everyone off a bit. There be dragons? If you want to get technical the phrase is actually “Here Be Dragons,” but it was modified a bit for the film