Recommended The Movie Note: the images accompanying this review are used for illustrative purposes only and do not reflect the contents of the Ministry of Fear Blu – ray . Ministry of Fear ‘s sturdily entertaining noir must have been as much of a “sure thing” as possible from the moment it first got the green light. After all, this handsomely mounted Paramount production was directed by Fritz Lang …
Recommended The second and last Derek Flint movie, In Like Flint (1967) is widely considered inferior even by die-hard fans of the first entry, Our Man Flint (1966). Probably due to my strong dislike of the original movie, my expectations were so low there was nowhere to go but up with the second one. Overall it’s not an improvement, weaker as it is in some ways while a bit better in others, and …
Rent It Nicholas and Alexandra Blu – ray Review Nicholas and Alexandra is anambitious, sprawling, and well-meaning motion pictureabout the remaining members of the Romanov family dynasty in Russia.Thecharacters are in the thrust surrounding revolution and changes toRussiangovernment. Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and produced by SamSpiegel,…
Highly Recommended Easter Parade Blu – ray Review Irving Berlin’s EasterParade is one of the greatest film musicals. The film stars JudyGarland,Fred Astaire, Peter Lawford, and Ann Miller and each performer bringssome oftheir greatest work to this “parade” of shows, featuring Academy Awardwinningmusic through adapted music score arranged by Johnny Green and RogerEdens. Easter Parade is one of the …
Highly Recommended THE FILM Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition of the film under review. We’re all fairly well-accustomed by now to movies that openly, self-reflexively acknowledge their own artificiality — so many different filmmakers, from Godard to De Palma to Tarantino , have been doing it for so long, each for their own …
Highly Recommended *All images in this review taken from the Blu-ray discs in this set. Click on all images to view full size caps.
Highly Recommended Anna Karenina is the latest adaptation to be filmed of Leo Tolstoy’s classic and acclaimed novel. This time around the film auteur and director bringing it all together for the big-screen is none other than the spectacularly gifted Joe Wright ( Pride and Prejudice , Atonement ), who brings with him an unusual and unique approach to the source material by turning it into …
Highly Recommended THE FILM Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition of the film under review.
Recommended The Movie: In the early 80s, divorce suddenly became a big subject in the media, particularly when it involved couples with kids. Irreconcilable Differences , released in 1984, addressed not only the divorce of parents but of their daughter filing for legal divorce, or emancipation, from them as well. The movie begins with what was the biggest moment in the trailer and other …
Highly Recommended THE FILM I must confess to never having seen director Joseph Losey’s mid-career debacles (or masterpieces; depends on whose take you listen to) Modesty Blaise (1966) or Boom! (1968), but judging from what I’ve read and heard regarding those films, Losey — an expat German who fled the Nazis and made films in the U.S., the U.K., and France over a long and unusually varied …