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: The artist's urge to create, despite overwhelming resistance from the outside world, gets a sympathetic if plodding treatment in the biopic Vincent & Theo .
Rent It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. I felt kind of sick watching The Captive , which tells the fictional story of a nine-year-old girl who is kidnapped and forced into sexual servitude.
Rent It The Movie: Directed by Mick Jackson from a script by James Hicks, 1990's Chattahoochee is based on the true story' of Emmett Foley, played in the film by Gary Oldman.
Highly Recommended “I just want to meet a guy I like as much as you. Is that too much to ask?” [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] Paige (Gillian Jacobs) and Sasha Read the entire review
Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less The strange, tragic relationship between wrestling and John du Pont Reviewer's Bias* Loves: Mark Ruffalo, Bennett Miller Likes: Channing Tatum, Steve Carell, wrestling (not the pro kind) Dislikes: Many biopics Hates: When money protects the guilty The Movie Despite getting something of a late start on his directing career, Bennett Miller has been in no rush …
Rent It The Movie: Are there many directors like Rob Reiner in film history who produced a string of classics during the first half of his career, only to spend the second half pumping out one disaster after the other?
DVD Talk Collector Series The Connection (1961) is a historically significant if very stagey and virtually unreleased feature directed and edited by independent experimental filmmaker Shirley Clarke (1919-1997). An adaptation of Jack Gelber's 1959 Obie-winning play, the entire story takes place in a grungy New York loft – there are no exteriors and no other sets – where junkies, including jazz …
Highly Recommended The Movie: 1975's Love and Death is probably the oddest film of Woody Allen's “early funny ones,” but, pound for pound, it is also probably the funniest. Set in Russia during the Napoleonic Wars, Love and Death features a smorgasbord of smarty-pants riffs on philosophy, literature, and cinema, Marxian (as in Groucho) double-talk, and slapstick setpieces that rival the work of …
Rent It I'll say this, Guy Who Designed the Artwork for Dark Haul : you did your job, and you did it well. It's probably been twenty years since I last picked up a new release just because I was entranced by its cover art.
Rent It The Movie: Albert Pyun is best known for directing action and sci-fi pictures like Cyborg with Jean Claude Van Damme but in 1986 he made Dangerously Close , a strange tale of youth gone wild. It's a strange film to be sure, one that seems far more concerned with technique and style than with narrative substance, but it's an interesting film to revisit almost thirty years after it debuted …