Recommended The Movie: The Guest is a flat-footed genre exercise that's as straight and stripped as they come, but it's brimming with enough style, tension, mood, and technical creativity to successfully cover for its stunning lack of originality.
Recommended Please Note: The screen shots accompanying this review come from the DVD edition of Looking: The Complete First Season.
Recommended The Movie: Even when it was first released thirty-three years ago, On Golden Pond already felt dated, so it's no surprise that viewing it now makes it look older than it actually is.
Rent It Colin (Idris Elba) has spent the last five years in prison. He was convicted on a manslaughter charge, but Colin is more dangerous than it seems; although the prosecutor couldn't make a case, he is responsible for the death of five other women. He is granted a parole hearing, having been only been convicted of the lesser crime, but one of the parole board is wise to his act, holding the …
Highly Recommended Adapted from the eponymous 1975 play by Leah Napolin and Isaac Bashevis Singer—and in turn, Singer's earlier short story “Yentl the Yeshiva Boy” —Barbra Streisand's Yentl (1983) is an uncompromising personal project that's held up quite nicely during the last three decades. Our story follows Yentl Mendel (Streisand) and her father (Nehemiah Persoff) in early 20th century …
DVD Talk Collector Series Poirot Complete Blu-ray Review Agatha Christie's Poirot: Complete Cases Collection is easilythe most ultimate set for fans of the long-running mystery seriesPoirot. Thecollection features all 70 episodes (which represents all of thematerial thatwas written by Christie featuring the character) and in the originalbroadcastorder. The series began airing as a British ITV …
Rent It The Movie: In River's Edge , a clique of disaffected kids in small town '80s California don't know how to react when one of their peers is coldly murdered by another in their group. As the gravity of the situation dawns on them, their reactions range from a total freakout to wondering why the death of a TV character made them cry – where an actual death involving their close friend …
Recommended The Movie: Occasionally one has to wonder about a film with a powerful true story and a famous face associated with it. Such is the case of The Good Lie , produced by Ron Howard and Brian Glazer, and featuring an Oscar winner in its midst. It tells the story of Mamere (Arnold Oceng), Jeremiah (Ger Duany), Paul (Emmanuel Jal) and Abital (Kuoth Wiel)
Highly Recommended The Movie: When most people think of Raymond Chandler's work, they think of Humphrey Bogart as private eye Philip Marlowe in the 1946 adaptation of The Big Sleep . Since then, a handful of films have revisited and updated Chandler's iconic gumshoe, such as 1969's Marlowe , which cast James Garner as the title character, and 1978's The Big Sleep , with Robert Mitchum in the …
Highly Recommended The Movie: I sincerely hope that you will read this review instead of simply looking at the star rating and assuming that Samurai Cop is a mediocre and forgettable action movie from the 80s, which is what a 2.5 stars out of 5 implies. Before you write Samurai Cop off completely, let me explain myself: Samurai Cop is as far as you can get from mediocre or forgettable. Chances …