DVD Talk Collector Series Note: The screencaps in this review are taken from the DVD edition of Little Shop of Horrors : The Director’s Cut and are not indicative of the Blu-Ray’s picture quality.
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the standard edition DVD issued by Kino and not the Blu-ray edition under review. This is my first exposure to the work of Mario Bava, but based on Black Sunday , I need to start seeking out his other films right quick
Recommended The Boys and Girls of Sigma Phi. Some Will Live. Some Will Die.
Skip It THE FILM: Chernobyl Diaries nails its dreary, post-nuclear meltdown Ukraine setting but not much else. This anemic horror film was written and produced by Paranormal Activity director Oren Peli, and provides little bloodletting, special effects or suspense. Several young friends join a burly local for an “Extreme Tour” of Prypiat, the stricken city next door to the Chernobyl Nuclear …
DVD Talk Collector Series One of the all-time great boxing movies, Body and Soul (1947) instantly became the template even for the great ones that followed. Champion and The Set-Up (both 1949) told similar stories, while The Harder They Fall (1956), also excellent, is practically a remake of Body and Soul only told from the perspective of a cynical publicist rather than the fighter. Body and …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials and stills provided by The Criterion Collection, not the Blu-ray edition under review. John Schlesinger’s followup to his acclaimed hit Midnight Cowboy (1969), though it didn’t win the Oscars and still isn’t as widely known or venerated as its predecessor, still stands as his best, most personal …
Recommended The Movie: The story of Legendary Amazons is fairly straightforward, I believe. All of the men of the Yang Clan are killed in battle and their women, from the youngest to the oldest, must take up arms and seek revenge against the armies that killed their men.
Highly Recommended Chronologically the fourth of four “Three Mesquiteers” Westerns released to Blu-ray by Olive Films, and the sixth of eight such films co-starring John Wayne, Three Texas Steers (1939) is a lively B-Western-circus picture-racetrack yarn genre hybrid. Subtle it ain’t, but for those viewers willing to sit back and enjoy its frequent ridiculousness, it can be 56 minutes of …
Universal Studios Home Entertainment announced today that Seth MacFarlane’s Ted , starring Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis, will be available on Blu-ray, DVD and On Demand December 11.
Having earned an impressive $850 million worldwide this year, Ice Age: Continental Drift will be available on Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray and DVD from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment on December 11.