Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. I try to refrain from calling a movie “The Next…” something when writing these reviews
Rent It Few directors have had careers as unusual and eclectic as filmmaker Monte Hellman. Probably best known for Two-Lane Blacktop and his most recent feature film, Road to Nowhere , as well as producing Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs , Hellman was one of many filmmakers mentored by Roger Corman, and Hellman's early work includes titles like Beast From Haunted Cove and The Terror (in 1989 …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Jeremy Gardner's post-apocalyptic The Battery is a good movie without qualifiers, but it is a pretty great movie when you consider the budget is only $6,000.
Highly Recommended The Show: The Comedy Central sketch show Key & Peele is heading into its triumphant fourth season, and so (much more quickly than they did with seasons 1 & 2 ) the cable network has put out another spotless-looking Blu-ray for the show's excellent 13-episode third season. Though the package is a little lighter on bonus features than previous releases, the main episodes are …
Recommended Before 1950, nearly all of the best Westerns were in black-and-white. Partly this was the law of averages, as the vast majority of pre-1950 Westerns were produced in black-and-white to begin with. But other than a few notable exceptions (John Ford's She Wore a Yellow Ribbon , for instance), pre-1950 Technicolor Westerns generally played it safe.
Highly Recommended The Series: While Starz released the four different storylines of their smash hit series Spartacus individually on Blu-ray and DVD over the past few years, they've now assembled all of that material into one Complete Series boxed set release. And just to drive collector types crazy, there are some exclusive extra features included in this set that aren't available on those …
Recommended Looking at the Blu-ray cover for Last Passenger , one might feel bad for Dougray Scott.
Recommended Note : Although screencaps should only be considered an idea of what the disc looks like, click any capture in this review to expand the image to a full size .png. When a noble lord named Arnolfini (Fernando Hilbeck) is forced out of his castle, he turns to his army, led by Sergeant Hawkwood (Jack Thompson), to help him get it back.
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the standard-definition DVD included in the retail package, not the Blu-ray edition under review. It's wonderful how a good movie can sometimes turn a night around. I have to remind myself of that sometimes.