Highly Recommended Nekromantik: It's hard to fathom how desensitized I've become in the last 20-plus years. Way back in 1991 a little video store opened up in SE Portland, Oregon. It's since become an institution, but in those days Mike Clark's Movie Madness had the movies you couldn't find ANYWHERE.
Recommended The Movie: 1981's True Confessions is one of those many films that has tremendous talent involved (both behind and in front of the camera), was pretty well-received upon release (though not exactly a hit), and still has managed to drift into obscurity. It's not a lost masterpiece, but True Confessions is a welcome time capsule of an era where character-driven dramas could still be …
Recommended I had seen Avalanche (1978) only once before, 35-odd years ago when it made its network television debut. Back then the movie struck me as curiously cheap-looking, like a TV-movie, and generally uninvolving with barely-sketched characters
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Highly 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. Writing a review of Obvious Child presents some obvious topics. Maybe I could focus on how the film is about a woman, and is written, directed, and produced by women as well, perspective that gives this charming and …
Highly Recommended Wow, what a surprise! If you've suffered through as many public domain movies from the 1930s as I have, films produced and distributed by small, long-defunct and forgotten companies, you'll know that the vast majority are quite dreadful, and normally only the cheapest of home video distributors (e.g., Alpha Video) will release them at all, typically with terrible video …
Recommended Save Your Legs Blu-ray Review The world ofprofession sports has led to so many famous sports films coveringglobal favoriteslike Baseball, Basketball, Soccer, Football, Tennis… and Cricket?
Highly Recommended The Movie: As far as enjoyment and appreciation of Michael Moore's films go, it pays to approach them as visual essays rather than completely objective documentaries. They are obviously out to make a point, everything from the fact that Moore narrates his own documentaries with a deft ear for wit and irony, as well as some of the clever editing choices made in order to bring …
Skip It Che! Blu-ray Review Director Richard Fleischer's Che! ( Tora! Tora!Tora! ) is probably best left forgotten. The concept of thefilm is tofocus upon revolution leader Che Guevara during the period of Che'sarrival inCuba during the mid-1950's to his death following an ambush in 1967.The storyis partially told as a dramatic narrative with some emphasis onshowcasingparts of the Cuban …
Recommended I didn't much care for Run Silent Run Deep (1958) when I first saw it during the early days of DVD. Part of the problem was MGM's unimpressive video transfer, which was in unenhanced 1.66:1 widescreen.