DVD Talk Collector Series Cannibal Holocaust: “Just sit back and enjoy the show.” Cannibal Holocaust is the Star Wars of cannibal movies. It’s the Star Wars of found-footage movies, and pretty much exploitation films in general
Fans of The Twilight Zone haven’t exactly been starved for their beloved show. Numerous DVD and Blu-ray editions have been released over the years – including a definitive boxed set released in 2012 – and anything new may come across as double-dipping in the extreme. But for those unwilling to invest $200 for a complete set, options become a lot trickier…
Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less Jason Bateman succeeds in front of and behind the camera Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Dark comedies, Kathryn Hahn Likes: Jason Bateman, Allison Janney Dislikes: Spelling bee pressure Hates: Crappy parents The Movie A full-grown man enters an eighth-grade spelling bee, and proceeds to systematically decimate his kiddie competitors with evil glee, before …
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from standard-issue DVD included in the Criterion combo, not the Blu-ray.
Recommended Attack on Titan – Set 1 Blu-ray Review There’s a certain little series known as Attackon Titan .You may have heard of it. It’s the most discussed anime seriescurrently aroundwith a huge audience and a great deal of fervor around the entireglobe.Funimation has recently acquired this series: the biggest anime hit oftheyear. Astonishing viewers worldwide, Attack on Titan is …
Rent It One of those “What were they thinking?” films from the early 1970s, The Baby (1973) is a real oddball horror-thriller similar but much inferior to Jack Hill’s darkly comic cult film Spider Baby (filmed in 1964 but unreleased until 1968), so much so one wonders if Baby writer and co-producer Abe Polsky had seen it. Produced on a modest but adequate budget, The Baby is pretty mild with …
A look at some DVDs scheduled to be released in the weeks ahead.
I consider myself a little unusual as I purchase DVDs and Blu-ray discs. Some I have purchased recently proudly state on the packet DVD+UltraViolet or BluRay+UltraViolet.
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Jake Gyllenhaal plays two men that look exactly alike in the odd, haunting Enemy .
Recommended Kismet (1955) was a big flop when it was new, earning $1.8 million against a $3 million production cost, one of a handful of costly financial failures for the studio that year ( It’s Always Fair Weather , Jupiter’s Darling , and Hit the Deck all lost money), though Kismet appears to have been the biggest financial loser. Previously filmed twice by Warner Bros., first as a 1920 silent …