Recommended The Movie: Written and directed by David Schmoeller in 1986, Crawlspace (not to be confused with the made for TV movie of the same name) is a twisted thriller that once again found the writer/director working with producer Charles Band (then with Empire Pictures, prior to starting Full Moon).
Skip It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. I may not be the target audience for young adult film adaptation The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones but I was willing to give it a fair shake.
Rent It Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. The TV Series: Time for more cha-cha music, manly men, swanky dames, and Rat Pack-era swellegance. In an unfortunate coincidence, we happened to watch the second and final season of the Starz “mobsters and mayhem in 1959 Miami” drama Magic City at the same time …
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Rent It The majority of American film fans will only maybe know Jay Chou from The Green Hornet , the underrated Michel Gondry-directed, Seth Rogen / Evan Goldberg-scripted adaptation that cast the actor as actual hero Kato to Rogen’s dim Hornet. In his home country of China, however, Chou rose to fame as a songwriter for numerous pop acts after an appearance on a televised competition show, then …
DVD Talk Collector Series “There are eight million stories in the naked city…” …and here are 138 of them.
Highly Recommended To be perfectly honest, when I requested The Attack it was listed in our screener pool only as “Attack” and I thought it was the same-named 1955 Robert Aldrich war movie. Instead, it turned out to be a partly American-financed movie about an Arab man living in Tel Aviv coming to grips with the realization that his wife may have been responsible for a suicide bombing that …
Recommended The Movie: Michael Cera is a jerk in his new movie. And not the playing-against-type cartoon jerk he was in This Is The End or even the endearingly oblivious and cowardly semi-jerk at the center of Scott Pilgrim vs
Skip It Eleven days following the release of the 30th Anniversary DVD Edition of The Message (also known as Mohammad, Messenger of God , 1976), word came that the Islamic producer-director of the film, Syrian-born Moustapha Akkad (best known as the producer of the Halloween film series), was murdered in Amman, Jordan , one of the 56 fatalities resulting from of a terrorist bombing at a wedding …
Recommended Barbara (2012) is a low-key, nearly minimalist drama about an East German doctor trying to keep co-workers and neighbors at arm’s length while she plots to flee to the West and into the arms of the West German boyfriend trying to facilitate her escape.