Recommended The Movie: Directed by Walter Hill who co-wrote with David Giler and Michael Kane, 1981's Southern Comfort takes place in Louisiana in 1973. Here, nine National Guardsmen are on a weekend training mission in the backwoods swamps.
DVD Talk Collector Series A fascinating work, Georges Franju's Judex (1963) is at once unique while heavily influenced by both silent and contemporary films alike, and it probably helped spur the increased production less arty but likewise stylized movies in its wake. A crime thriller with science fiction and fantasy trappings, it remakes the famous 1916 French serial with less interest in the …
Rent It THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. Though it came out in 2001, Kissing Jessica Stein seems to most strongly fit into the post- Swingers 1990s, when artists and performers outside of the Hollywood scene stopped waiting for someone to create a project that fit their particular quirks and …
Rent It Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. The Movie: With the amusing, ahead-of-its-time 1948 satire So This Is New York , Olive Films continues their plunge into the Paramount holdings for offbeat films – this particular one serves as a good vehicle for the semi-forgotten radio and television …
Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. It would seem that in the wake of success of both the 1939 version of Wuthering Heights and perhaps even more so Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca in 1940, a slew of brooding romantic period pieces followed. Olive Films has started to corner the market …
DVD Talk Collector Series Cannibal Holocaust: “Just sit back and enjoy the show.” Cannibal Holocaust is the Star Wars of cannibal movies. It’s the Star Wars of found-footage movies, and pretty much exploitation films in general
Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less Jason Bateman succeeds in front of and behind the camera Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Dark comedies, Kathryn Hahn Likes: Jason Bateman, Allison Janney Dislikes: Spelling bee pressure Hates: Crappy parents The Movie A full-grown man enters an eighth-grade spelling bee, and proceeds to systematically decimate his kiddie competitors with evil glee, before …
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from standard-issue DVD included in the Criterion combo, not the Blu-ray.
Recommended The Grand Budapest Hotel Blu-ray Review The Grand Budapest Hotel is a comedy-dramafromwriter/director Wes Anderson ( Rushmore , The Life AquaticWith SteveZissou ). It is Anderson’s 8th feature film and is a British/Germanco-production. The story takes place within and around the hotel andoccurswithin a fictional place known as the Republic of Zubrowka (itself ametaphorical state …