Recommended The Movie: Directed by Peter Chan in 2011, Dragon (retitled for release in North America by the Weinsteins for some reason, the original title was Wu-Xia ) stars Donnie Yen as a man named Liu Jin-xi. He’s lived in the same small town for about ten years now, having married a local single mother named Ayu (Tang Wei) and set up shop in town making paper. Together he and his wife are …
Recommended THE FILM Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials, not the current Blu-ray edition under review. To a socially conscious filmmaker like Hector Babenco (an Argentine-born Brazilian filmmaker who, before he took Hollywood and Oscar with 1985’s Kiss of the Spider Woman , made more or less directly activist narrative features in Brazil), it must have seemed …
Skip It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu – ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Marlon Wayans built his career on irreverent spoof comedies, with performances in Scary Movie and its sequel, both of which Wayans’ brother, Keenen Ivory Wayans, directed.
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu – ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. After a violent confrontation with his wife’s lover, Paris attorney Paul Exben becomes a chameleon, slinking through the lives of others while calculating his future. This French thriller, directed by Eric Lartigau, is less suspenseful than haunting, and Romain Duris gives Exben a wide-eyed alertness seemingly …
Rent It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu – ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. A sequel to the 2009 slasher The Collector wasn’t exactly a given, though that film tripled its $3 million budget at the box office.
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Highly Recommended THE FILM Please Note: The images used here are taken from the film’s 2001 DVD release , not the Blu – ray edition of the film under review. Like most films by Brian De Palma ( Dressed to Kill , Blow Out ), 1978’s The Fury is of dubious genre: Is it a horror film, with its eerie supernatural story elements
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu – ray edition under review. Writer/director/star Charles Chaplin moves on from his Little Tramp persona and embraces something entirely new in the darkly comic Monsieur Verdoux . Based on the story of a real-life “Bluebeard,” and working from a script idea by Orson Welles (who …
Highly Recommended Except for his first starring feature, The Saphead (1920), College (1927) is the least Keatonish of Buster Keaton’s silent comedies.