Highly Recommended The Movies: One of the most popular and enduring actors to ever specialize in horror films, Vincent Price may be gone but his legacy lives on. Shout! Factory, through their Scream Factory horror movie specialty sub-label, have gathered together six of his finest films and issued them together in a special edition Blu-ray boxed set. Note, the movies in the set are not presented …
DVD Talk Collector Series Big Parade TheMovie: King Vidor’s The Big Parade is one of the successful and influential movies from the silent era andit’s astounding that it took over a decade and a half to release thefilm on DVD. Good things come to those who wait as WarnerBrothers has finally rectified that situation with a pristine lookingBlu-ray (also available on DVD) that has a couple of …
Highly Recommended Friends have been raving to me about Downton Abbey (2010-present), the British (and partly American-financed) television drama contrasting the lives upper- and servant-class residents of a large manor house in post-Edwardian England. I had been meaning to catch up with it eventually and gradually but, perfect timing, along comes PBS’s release of Downton Abbey: Seasons 1, 2 & 3 …
DVD Talk Collector Series Rossellini – Bergman – Criterion Set Click onan image to view the Blu-rayscreenshot with 1080p resolution Thereare moments in… Read the entire review
Highly Recommended Nevermind how many angels can dance on the head of a pin; how many soldiers can you fit on the flipside of a bottle cap? Quite a lot, as it turns out
Skip It To the less-attentive viewer, Sisters & Brothers might seem like a complete and fully-formed movie, but it’s merely an optical illusion created by the film’s talented cast. At least six of the film’s ten central performers manage to lift impressive amounts of genuine emotion out of director / writer Carl Bessai’s scattershot, clumsy screenplay, infusing a number of scenes with a sense of …
Highly Recommended A fiftysomething-year-old Peter Cushing, knife in hand, wrestles with a topless hooker in this British proto-slasher from the class of 1968. I can — and I will! — write a long, rambling review about Corruption , but that one, singular sentence really does tell you everything you need to know
DVD Talk Collector Series Note : For whatever reason, Universal Pictures has not yet set a US release date for Fast & Furious 6 . This is a review of the UK’s disc, which is completely region free and will play without any problems in a US Blu-Ray player. In 2009, after the box office fizzle of Tokyo Drift , Fast & Furious made a surprise bid to bring the series back from the edge of DTV by …
Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less Go inside The Shining …really inside Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Good documentaries, conspiracy theories, Stephen King Likes: The Shining Dislikes: Obsessives Hates: Pretentious film study, Barry Lyndon The Movie Where is the line between precise genius and pretentious schmuck? My gues is it was very close to Stanley Kubrick, whose meticulous and exasperating …
Recommended Based on a series of novels by author Peter Temple, “Jack Irish” follows the exploits of the detective by the same name. This Blu-Ray, dubbed “Set 1”, covers the first two film-length Jack Irish stories, “Bad Debts” and “Black Tide”, based on the corresponding novels with the same titles.