Merv Griffin (1925-2007) was one of those late-40's band singers — with the Freddy Martin Orchestra — who drifted, looking for a career, after the bands dried up.
Highly Recommended Content: With the combination of the Director of the fim, Hiroyuki Okiura, whom has worked on powerhouses such as Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade, Akira, Cowboy Bebop: The Movie, and The Evangelion and Ghost in the Shell franchises, and the animation/production studio behind Attack on Titan, Eden of the East, FLCL, every Ghost in the Shell anime, and Psycho-Pass , Letter to Momo …
Recommended The Movie: Frontera is an issue-based ensemble melodrama that manages to extract enough emotion to get its points through while staying fairly levelheaded. It's not a masterpiece by any means and suffers from some of the technical and narrative issues that usually plague a first time feature director, but it's also nowhere near as preachy and pretentious as similar efforts like Babel …
Recommended The Series: HBO's vampire fantasy/soap opera series True Blood ran seven seasons from 2008 until just this year, 2014.
DVD Talk Collector Series NOTE: The images featured here were taken from promotional materials and do not reflect the quality of the Blu-ray under review. The Movie: Like his debut film Boy Meets Girl , writer-director Leos Carax's second feature, 1986's Mauvais Sang (the literal translation is “Bad Blood,” although the UK title was The Night Is Young ), focuses on a lovesick young man named …
Skip It The Movie: Shock Waves is one of those 70s cheap genre exploitation flicks where the artwork promoting it is much better than the movie itself. It takes a killer premise, Nazi zombies bred to survive underwater come back decades after World War II to wreak havoc, and destroys it with a dull and lifeless execution, depthless characters, horrid acting and worst of all for such a film …
Recommended The Movie: Directed by filmmaker Ren Sampaio and adapted from a popular song entitled Faroeste Caboclo by Brazilian musician Renato Russo, Brazilian Western isn't really so much a western as it is a modern crime drama. It is at least set in Brazil, however, so the title isn't completely misleading! The story is set in the 1980s and follows a young man named Jo o de Santo Cristo (Fabr …
Highly Recommended Fairy Tail Part 13 Blu-ray Review Fairy Tail is an action-adventure-comedy series which follows a group of wizardswho areall a part of the popular and renowned Fairy Tail guild, where magicbeings with special gifts all work together on various jobs andmissionsfor the non-magic folk of the world — these talented people work asone toface enemy guilds (the type who use …
Rent It The Film: Would the movie-going public even be enthusiastic about a live-action rendition of Sleeping Beauty without the perfectly-cast Angelina Jolie donning the horns, the slinky black dress, and the pearly-white grin of Maleficent? Perhaps, but given the lukewarm climate created by the reimagined tales of Snow White and Huntsman and Jack and the Giant Slayer , as well as Disney's …
DVD Talk Collector Series Well this is a treat! As a movie, Dragonfly Squadron (1954) is fairly ordinary, a war movie with a familiar story and genre stereotypes: hardline, humorless commanding officer; sly second-in-command, subordinate with a personal grudge against his commanding officer, a woman emotionally torn between the dedicated, self-sacrificing doctor she married and the commanding …