DVD Talk Collector Series THE MOVIE: Please Note: The images used here are promotional stills for the film and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review.
DVD Talk Collector Series THE MOVIE: Please Note: The images used here are promotional stills and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. No one likes jury duty.
Highly Recommended Within our lifetimes we’ve marveled as biologists have managed to look at ever smaller and smaller things; And astronomers have looked further and further into the dark night sky, back in time and out in space. But maybe the most mysterious of all is neither the small nor the large; it’s us, up close. Could we even recognize ourselves, and, if we did, would we know ourselves …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from the 1999 DVD release and reflect neither the corrected aspect ratio nor the improved image quality of the Blu-ray edition under review. All the excitement leading up to the 1998 release of Velvet Goldmine , Todd Haynes’s ( I’m Not There ) epic meditation on the “glam rock” pop-music movement of the early 1970s …
DVD Talk Collector Series The Series: One of the first really impressive TV shows to be released onBlu-ray, The Planet Earth , has been the go-to disc in my houseto illustrate to visitors the quality of Blu-ray discs.
Rent It The Film: You practically couldn’t see one of Focus Features’ films in 2011 without also stumbling onto the trailer for One Day , and considering the thriving year that the studio has had — ranging from Hanna to Jane Eyre , not to mention Bridesmaids on the Universal front — plenty of eyes fell on its OneRepublic-powered, indie-romance tearfulness.
Highly Recommended I’ve seen West Side Story (1961) three or four times through the years, including a screening at MGM back around 2002, apparently during the early stages of its restoration, but it wasn’t until I saw this particular Blu-ray that finally I was able to see past its many flaws and appreciate its equally abundant achievements.
Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are promotional stills provided by Kino Lorber and from other sources, and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. “Industrial continuity is ensured, whatever happens.” Lucas Belvaux’s cool, elegant Rapt is a timely enough thriller, involving as it does the kidnapping and ransoming of a high-rolling, cocky, jet-setting …
Recommended The Film Web Series: Assassin’s Creed: Lineage isn’t being marketed properly. There’s really no way of getting around it: claiming that it’s “the movie prequel” to the wildly popular videogame series misleads those who glance over the cover, since the main feature only takes up about thirty-five (35) minutes — even though the back of the packaging insists that it’s two-and-a-half …
Highly Recommended Though well regarded, Little Big Man (1970) is nonetheless a vastly underrated work, and one of the all-time great Westerns, the “the story of the Human Beings, who was promised land where they could live in peace.