Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from standard-issue DVD included in the Criterion combo, not the Blu-ray. I spent yesterday watching a couple of Woody Allen movies
Recommended The Movie: Directed by Gianfranco Parolini (credited as Frank Kramer), a fairly prolific writer and director of Spaghetti Westerns, sword and sandal pictures and action movies in the sixties and seventies, Sabata stars steely eyed Lee Van Cleef as a bounty hunter who saunters into Daugherty City right around the time that a cool one hundred grand is stolen from the local bank. The …
Rent It There's a small but adamant minority out there that positively loathes Frank Capra's otherwise beloved holiday classic It's a Wonderful Life (1946). I have one friend, for instance, who hates the film so much he always refers to it as “It's a Wonderful %$#*ing Life.” I happen to like it myself, warts and all, but regardless it would be interesting to know just how many of these Scrooges …
Rent It The Film: On the surface, Duel At Diablo looks like the kind of movie that subconsciously inspired Blazing Saddles , what with its African American costar playing against a popular Caucasian one, set in the West and battling seemingly insurmountable odds.
Rent It Dr. Samuel Fry (Michael Maloney) has reached an impasse in his treatment of Veronica Bloom (Emmanuelle Vaugier). She’s a former psychotic whose failure to progress without the heavy use of drugs prompts Dr
Highly Recommended To be perfectly honest, when I requested The Attack it was listed in our screener pool only as “Attack” and I thought it was the same-named 1955 Robert Aldrich war movie. Instead, it turned out to be a partly American-financed movie about an Arab man living in Tel Aviv coming to grips with the realization that his wife may have been responsible for a suicide bombing that …
Recommended The Movie: Michael Cera is a jerk in his new movie. And not the playing-against-type cartoon jerk he was in This Is The End or even the endearingly oblivious and cowardly semi-jerk at the center of Scott Pilgrim vs
Skip It Eleven days following the release of the 30th Anniversary DVD Edition of The Message (also known as Mohammad, Messenger of God , 1976), word came that the Islamic producer-director of the film, Syrian-born Moustapha Akkad (best known as the producer of the Halloween film series), was murdered in Amman, Jordan , one of the 56 fatalities resulting from of a terrorist bombing at a wedding …
Recommended Barbara (2012) is a low-key, nearly minimalist drama about an East German doctor trying to keep co-workers and neighbors at arm’s length while she plots to flee to the West and into the arms of the West German boyfriend trying to facilitate her escape.
DVD Talk Collector Series Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. The Movie: Satyajit Ray’s 1963 film The Big City , a.k.a. Mahangar , is another fascinating outing from India’s great multi-hyphenate of cinema (he directed, wrote the screenplay, and composed the musical score)