DVD Talk Collector Series Note: The images in this review are taken from various sources. They are simply for aesthetic purposes and do not represent the Blu-Ray’s image quality.
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials and filmmaker Hal Hartley’s website , not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Rent It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. In an interview for Taken 2 , Liam Neeson said he didn’t want to make a “sloppy sequel.” I guess that didn’t quite work out, Liam. Pierre Morel’s original Taken is an unexpectedly great thriller with solid characters and an interesting story to support its slick action.
Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. Choderlos de Laclos first published the novel Les liaisons dangereurses , a story of sexual intrigue and the wicked games of the French upper classes, in 1782. It has been adapted to stage, television, and cinema multiple times, perhaps most famously as the 1988 …
Highly Recommended The Film: The Duellists ‘ path to realization is an easy and logical one to follow: after thumbing through public-domain material to adapt and landing on a Joseph Conrad short story, Ridley Scott — then an experienced commercial director — took around a million dollars to emulate the tone and visual style of Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon, but with his own, distinctive …
Highly Recommended A pretty good B-Western featuring John Wayne, very early in his starring career, The New Frontier (1935) breaks no new ground but is well made for its budget level. Indeed, it’s fairly lavish by Republic Pictures’ standards, the studio then just getting started itself, the company having been founded earlier that year when Consolidated Film Laboratories president Herbert J …
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. William Wyler’s 1942 drama Mrs.
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. There are certain trajectories that we expect rock ‘n’ roll stories to take. Of course, the most common are of young men dreaming big and going nowhere
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The screen shots used here are from the 2007 DVD edition, not the Blu-ray under review. Monte Hellman’s dazed, stoically gorgeous 1971 film Two-Lane Blacktop is another one of those nuggets from the storied American cinema of the ’70s that easily proves what’s by now a commonplace among movie buffs — that it was a time when the frantic desperation of …
Highly Recommended Lightning Bug isn’t a horror flick, and yet it’s a film I’d bet many genre fans can relate to…those of us who grew up devouring Fangoria and GoreZone month in and month out, daydreaming about being the next Tom Savini or Rob Bottin. See, high school senior Green Graves (Bret Harrison) has a knack for creating gruesome monsters: doodling, sculpting, Read the entire review