Highly Recommended For better or worse, JJ Abrams and Steven Spielberg’s Super 8 (2011) is a complete throwback to movies that 30 or 40-somethings and their kids grew up watching. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Rent It It’s kind of criminal that we’re more than a half-decade into Blu-ray now, and I can still count on one hand how many Hammer films have found their way to high-def the world over. Severin Films is doing what they can to ease that sting, though
Highly Recommended THE PROGRAM: Please Note: The images used here are promotional stills and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. There are many cinematic points of reference that could be brought to bear on Billy Budd , the 1948 opera (adapted from Herman Melville’s novella) by composer Benjamin Britten, novelist/librettist E.M. Forster, and frequent Britten collaborator Eric …
Skip It THE MOVIE: Please Note: The images used here are from the standard definition DVD included with the Blu-Ray and not from the Blu-Ray itself. Woodrow and Aiden grew up together in Wisconsin, obsessing over their Mad Max VHS and dreaming of how they’d survive the apocalypse.
Rent It The Product: From time to time, we critics like to make up our own personal movie rules. We do so not because the artform needs them or because we can’t do our job without them.
Rent It THE FILM: A title card at the beginning of Submarine contains a plea addressed to American audiences from the film’s protagonist, Oliver Tate, to treat the film gently, because it’s an important story.