Highly Recommended Endeavor (2012-present) has mighty big shoes to fill. The very idea of a prequel series to the great Inspector Morse , the 1987-2000 collection of television movies starring John Thaw rank among the most intelligent and fascinating detective dramas ever done
Rent It The Movie: The 20th Century Fox of the early ’40s wasn’t taking any chances when they mounted the lavish Blood and Sand , now out on Blu Ray, for its red-hot matinee idol Tyrone Power.
Highly Recommended George Harrison: “The next [movie of ours] should be completely different. We start shooting it in February.
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. Erich von Stroheim’s 1922 silent drama Foolish Wives is a masterful study of emotional manipulation. Even at its butchered length–reconstructed here to get us to 143 minutes, which is still shorter than the director’s cut and the original …
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Rent It The Film: As of late, the Gordan Chan once responsible for exhilarating martial-arts spectacles like Fist of Legend has taken a backseat to a more … uh, whimsical perspective from the director, whose gritty intuition in hand-to-hand combat gets lost in flourishes of magic and stiff characterizations.
Highly Recommended THE FILMS Please Note: The images used here are taken from the DVD edition included in the release, and do not directly reflect the picture quality of the Blu-ray edition under review. If you look up page for director Curtis Harrington on IMDB , you’ll be confronted with an extremely checkered Hollywood filmography, one that begins promisingly enough with the personal …
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. It took director Troy Duffy ten years to make a sequel to his cult hit The Boondock Saints , which hardly saw a theatrical release in 1999 but made over $50 million in video sales and rentals. The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day is only the director’s second film; the direct result of the explosive backlash …
Highly Recommended Note: images do not reflect the contents of The Garden of Words Blu Ray. The Movie: Don’t get me wrong, I love anime, but there’s a very real need for animation that doesn’t hew to the samurai/sci-fi/fantasy/”geeky guy finding himself pursued by hot chick(s)” formulas. That’s where The Garden of Words , a 2013 mini-feature from writer-director Makoto Shinkai, comes in
Highly Recommended THE FILM Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional and other materials and do not directly reflect the picture quality of the current Blu-ray edition under review.