Rent It One of those “What were they thinking?” films from the early 1970s, The Baby (1973) is a real oddball horror-thriller similar but much inferior to Jack Hill’s darkly comic cult film Spider Baby (filmed in 1964 but unreleased until 1968), so much so one wonders if Baby writer and co-producer Abe Polsky had seen it. Produced on a modest but adequate budget, The Baby is pretty mild with …
Skip It THE FILM: In no way would a rational person confuse Elizabeth Banks for a prostitute, yellow Marc Jacobs dress or not.
Highly Recommended The Lunchbox Blu-ray Review The Lunchbox was a surprise indie success in theUnited States box-office and it has already become one of the mostunexpectedhits of the entire year worldwide. The effort is from first-timefilmmaker Ritesh Batraand it stars acclaimed actors Irrfan Khan and Nimrat Kaur
Highly Recommended The Movie: Released in 1955, The Man from Laramie is a masterful conclusion to a run of five “psychological” Westerns starring James Stewart and directed by Anthony Mann, which began with 1950’s similarly excellent Winchester ’73 .
Rent It Capital ( Le Capital , 2012) is corporate thriller about the newly-crowned head of a leading French bank trying to hold onto his position amidst internal power struggles and a hostile takeover plot by an American hedge fund manager. Despite good intentions, it’s an almost complete misfire from director Costa-Gavras ( Z , Stage of Siege ). The film, based on a novel by St phane Osmont …
Highly Recommended With north of 150 movies under his belt, spanning everything from spy thrillers to nunsploitation to lesbian vampires, how could Jess Franco not direct a slasher flick? Bloody Moon isn’t subtle about it either. I mean, this 1981 slasher opens with a mute killer putting on a cheap, plastic mask — complete with P.O.V
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Highly Recommended Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the DVD portion of Ernest & Celestine . The Movie: In the animated charmer Ernest & Celestine , a mismatched pair forge an unlikely friendship as fugitives in a watercolor-dappled world – what’s not to love about that? Arriving on DVD and Blu Ray in both its original French and a good English-language dub, Ernest & Celestine is …
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Oliver Stone appears to have taken personally much of the criticism lobbed at his big-budget 2004 dramatization of Alexander the Great’s life, which underperformed stateside and received some gleefully nasty critical reviews. I saw the film in theaters, and, while heavily flawed, Alexander showed sparks of …
Recommended “Longmire” is currently entering its third season on A&E.