Acclaimed choreographer and director Gillian Lynne has launched a fitness DVD at the age of 88, aimed at dancers and older women. It is believed the release of Longevity Through Exercise, which draws on the…
This week’s best DVD releases Upstream Colour Blu-ray & DVD, Metrodome First acts are overrated. All too often, the first third of a movie is a narrative non-starter – a barren storytelling tundra hospitable only to weak expositional dialogue and lazy stock characters, easing us into a film like toddlers steered into naptime by a particularly over-explanatory lullaby. Taking the rare editorial …
The lack of special features on some recent classic Doctor Who releases has been lamentable. But here’s the complete opposite. Special features from recent new Who releases without the episodes they go with.
Highly Recommended Arguably the most obscure American feature released to Blu-ray format to date, Boardwalk (1979) was heretofore unknown to this writer despite an excellent cast of important actors. Spottily distributed by Atlantic Releasing, Boardwalk ‘s run may have been limited to a few prints distributed to a handful of theaters in major cities only. The movie, however, is excellent.
Rent It In 10 Words or Less Good ingredients, so-so recipe Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Campy horror, visually arresting films, Pin-up art Likes: Nurses, Niecy Nash Dislikes: Paz de la Huerta Hates: 3D gimmicks, wasted opportunity The Movie I will fully admit that this review will be more surface than most, but that’s mainly because the reason I wanted to see it was purely visual. When Nurse first …
Recommended Somehow I missed the chance to review George Gently – Series 5 when that title came DVD Talk’s way, and was surprised to see Series 6 open with its two leading characters lying prostrate having been seriously wounded by gunfire in an encounter with some villain, apparently footage from Series 5’s climax. Otherwise, George Gently , or more accurately, Inspector George Gently (as it is …
Skip It While test piloting a new jet, Fred Norwood (John Ericson) sees something he can’t explain: a flying saucer, one which requires some tricky maneuvering to avoid. Unfortunately, when he touches down, his bosses are furious — the radio transmissions he was sending describing the incident didn’t go through, the radar was a storm of static, and his test pilot partner was busy investigating …
‘White Dog is an angry, didactic take on a subject more commonly handled at arm’s length’ Long gone are the days when budding cinephiles would seek out new discoveries by gazing up at the marquee of their local nickelodeon and hoping against hope for a Capra retrospective or anything else that might offer a counterpoint to the paltry stream of new releases otherwise on offer.