Skip It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. If you’re going to shoot a “found footage” movie in 2013, you better have a damn good reason for doing so. I’m not against this cinematic trick sparked by The Blair Witch Project in 1999, but I am against lazy, nauseating filmmaking.
Recommended The Film : The story of Thor Heyerdahl’s 5,000-mile expedition across the open seas on a wooden raft has already been visualized by a trustworthy source: himself, in his Oscar-nominated documentary from the late-’40s.
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. You gotta love a good bummer, and there’s no bummer quite as good the 1941 tearjerker Penny Serenade
Highly Recommended I don’t know why it takes me so long to follow certain TV shows (other than not having cable, of course). Season One of The Walking Dead sat unwrapped on my shelf for close to a year before I finally cracked it open, thanks to my consistent lack of free time and standard reviewing obligations. It didn’t take me long to tear through all six episodes and I quickly snapped up …
Skip It Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. The Movie: Let me preface this review with a disclaimer: I never liked Danny Kaye all that much. As a kid, I was baffled by his doddering presence on TV (in Disney specials, on talk shows) and always wondered why he was famous in the first place
Rent It The Movie: The latest film from the animated wing of 20th Century Fox is Epic , following in the wings of similarly one word-titled animated films full of adventure, wonder and bravado. But just how well this film measures to the recent crop of similar ones in the genre remained to be seen for me until I finally experienced the slightly hyperbolic Epic on Blu-ray. So time to crack open …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Midway through Pain & Gain , as the Rock is grilling some human hands and feet over a charcoal grill, a title card appears informing the audience that “This is still a true story.” This mid-’90s set slice of Bayhem is based on true events, chronicled in several Miami New Times articles and a book by …
Rent It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. The road to adapting Jack Kerouac’s 1957 novel “On the Road” for the screen was filled with potholes and began several decades ago when the author courted Marlon Brando for the lead role of Beat generation drifter Dean Moriarty. Brando expressed little interest in the part, and Francis Ford Coppola eventually …
DVD Talk Collector Series THE FILM Please Note: The images used here are photos provided by Sony Pictures Classics and do not directly reflect the picture quality of the Blu-ray edition under review.
Recommended Fairy Tail – Part 5 Blu-ray Review Click onan image to view the Blu-rayscreenshot with 1080p resolution Read the entire review