A trio of dark Hollywood classics from different decades has been digitally spiffed up to tip-top condition just in time for new DVD releases. Earliest of the three is the silent version of Victor Hugo’s “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” starring the peerless Lon Chaney in a role that joins pathos…
The Hobbit movies have boosted tourist numbers to New Zealand.
Recommended The Movie: There is something about Memphis Belle that, for some reason when I stumble across it on television I find myself watching it. I do not know why, but in between the story or the casting it feels like something which captures a bit of the esprit de corps that soldiers (or in this case, airmen) share in a unique experience of risking one’s life for country. It does not do so …
Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less Because Blu-ray was made for nerds Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: ’80s films, Revenge of the Nerds Likes: College movies, T&A comedies Dislikes: Jocks Hates: That college wasn’t like it was in the movies The Movie When I was a kid, I watched a lot of HBO and frequented the long-goneVideo Plus in Copiague, NY, becoming a big fan of the T&A sex comedies of the ’80s …
Recommended Back in the summer of 1980, there was a lot of buzz about three new summer comedies. The Blues Brothers was an orgy of great music and wildly over-the-top stunts, yet for some reason it seem to play only inadequate second-rate theaters (I first saw it in a shoebox-sized mall cinema)
80s movies + 80s music = THE BEST THING ON THE PLANET.
Rent It Detective Chen Zilong (Donnie Yen) has spent years undercover, slowly but surely making a name for himself as “Dragon” Chen, an enforcer well-known in the Chinese underworld. Although he is committed to his job, he yearns to return to the regular police force, where his mother (Hee Ching Paw) will no longer have to worry about his safety. When his boss, Captain Cheung (Ronald Cheng …
It’s Earth Day, which means it’s time to reflect on what we’re doing to keep our planet beautiful. Many movies even remind us of this, but some movies just want to watch the world burn
As Earth Day approaches, four BBC-TV collections of documentaries on birds and bears have arrived on DVD, Blu-ray.