Recommended Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. The Movie: World War II actioner, psychological drama, buddy flick, progressive if overly earnest “message picture” – 1949’s Home of the Brave juggles several things at once. It hasn’t lost its potency, however, in dealing with racism-induced guilt and shame …
Recommended The Movie: Just in time for the 20th anniversary of the character’s first appearance (way back in John Byrne’s Next Men #21 unless you count San Diego Comic-Con Comics #2 , which was Dark Horse Comics’ comic con exclusive released in August 1993), Anchor Bay has reissued the two animated features that were first unleased on Blu-ray in 2007. This seems, however, to basically be the …
Recommended The Movie: As an honorably discharged soldier from approximately a gajillion years ago, I have a soft spot for war films released before and since my time in the service.
Rent It THE FILM: There is little to distinguish Bachelor Party from the horde of 1980s crude comedies except one thing, and it is a doozy: Tom Hanks. Fresh off the success of Splash , Hanks joined a cast of relatively unknowns in Director Neal Israel’s low-budget comedy that is surprisingly light on laughs. If anything, Bachelor Party is an interesting time capsule, and Hanks manages to inject …
Skip It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Michael Caine is the star of the original 1971 Get Carter and stars in this 2000 remake with Sylvester Stallone in the lead as mob enforcer Jack Carter. The original was gritty and exciting; this one not so much.
Rent It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. The opening minutes of The Bridges of Madison County , in which two adult siblings react to the reading of their mother’s will, are terrible.
Recommended Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the DVD portion of Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron . The Movie: Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron is a movie about a headstrong horse who’ll never, ever be tamed – he’s “come into this world, wild and free,” galloping through the American West “wild and untamed” – and if anyone tries to reign him in, he’s “never gonna give in” (Bryan …
Highly Recommended The Movie: Written and directed by Robert Hiltzik, 1983’s Sleepaway Camp could have very easily been lost in the crowd of eighties slasher films had it not been for the film’s infamous shock ending, one that’s gone down in history, and rightly so. We won’t spoil it here but this is really one of those movies where you’re not going to see it coming and a picture which proves …
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Recommended The Movie: There is something about Memphis Belle that, for some reason when I stumble across it on television I find myself watching it. I do not know why, but in between the story or the casting it feels like something which captures a bit of the esprit de corps that soldiers (or in this case, airmen) share in a unique experience of risking one’s life for country. It does not do so …