Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from the standard-definition 2005 DVD edition , not the new Blu-ray release under review. Although M has to be my favorite Fritz lang film, period, and I wouldn’t give up Metropolis or Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler for anything, there is a part of me that’s tempted to concur with the critic Dave Kehr’s assertion that …
DVD Talk Collector Series THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the film’s promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. The next time you hear someone grousing about how movies are only supposed to be 90 minutes long and anything over two hours is an affront to their patience, hand them a copy of Otto Preminger’s Anatomy of a Murder . After they have sat …
You don’t have to be a teen/twenties to enjoy Todd & The Book Of Pure Evil a wild blood festival, but that’s the mighty demographic that will eat this awesome series up. Pushing all the modern social lifestyle buttons that amps up today’s High School crowd the 13 episode series has finally arrived on DVD. Adults who like horror/comedy and don’t get grossed out too easily should have a good time with it; I know I did.
Recommended THE PROGRAM: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from promotional images provided by PBS, not the Blu-ray edition under review. It is both disturbing and unsurprising that The American Experience: Clinton , the recent PBS documentary on the multiple rises and falls of our 42nd president, plays like a melodrama that makes frequents dips into soap opera before righting …
Rent It “Unless.” Dr. Seuss’s prescient, cautionary environmental fable The Lorax (1971) was one of his best children’s books. Despite claims to the contrary on the disc’s single featurette, that “nobody was talking about the environment” at the time except for Seuss, in fact during the late 1960s and early ’70s concerns about the long-term effects of pollution, deforestation, and smog was on …
The dances presented on the DVD are endangered and are from some towns and villages of pre-1915 Historic Armenia.
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…