Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from the 2003 standard-definition DVD edition , not the Blu-ray edition under review. It’s strange to be speaking of Adaptation in the past tense; I vividly remember rushing right out to see it upon its release nearly a decade ago.
Skip It The Show: Â The BBC has been putting out some great SF/Fantasy shows inrecent years. Â The new DoctorWho is one of the best shops onthe air, Torchwood is excellent, and BeingHuman is always fun to watch. Â So I wasexcited when I heard that ‘the Beeb’was going to try its hand at a dark fantasy/horror series involvingghosts andzombies.
DVD Talk Collector Series THE MOVIE: Please Note: The screengrabs used here are from the standard-definition DVD included in this set, not from the Blu-Ray. So the moral of the story is kids ruin everything
Love has triumphed over action at the weekend box office with a No. 1 debut for the romantic drama “The Vow.” Studio estimates Sunday show that the love story starring Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum took in $41.7…
RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) There is nothing more buoyant, dangerous or irrepressible than James Cagney in his first years of stardom. Every film he did between 1931 and 1934 is worth seeing. Each one is a delight
RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) Produced and directed by Capt. James T.
Hi Mick: Why do quality actors like Geoffrey Rush and Robert Downey Jr., who presumably have long ago achieved financial comfort, take part in bad movies?
Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from an earlier standard-definition DVD, not the Blu-ray edition under review. I’m starting to feel a surge of ’90s nostalgia lately, which is something I thought I’d never say. Though, to be fair, it’s really only for the cinema of the decade, and mainly due to the recent spate of Miramax films making their way to Blu …
RATING: (ALERT VIEWER) Anonymous Who wrote William Shakespeare’s works: William Shakespeare, or someone else named William Shakespeare? Roland Emmerich (“10,000 B.C.”) answers with this Elizabethan political thriller,…
In collaboration with Rotten Tomatoes and its parent company, Flixster, The Chronicle presents the critical consensus of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s films.