DVD Talk Collector Series Note: The screencaps in this review are taken from the DVD edition of Little Shop of Horrors : The Director’s Cut and are not indicative of the Blu-Ray’s picture quality.
DVD Talk Collector Series One of the all-time great boxing movies, Body and Soul (1947) instantly became the template even for the great ones that followed. Champion and The Set-Up (both 1949) told similar stories, while The Harder They Fall (1956), also excellent, is practically a remake of Body and Soul only told from the perspective of a cynical publicist rather than the fighter. Body and …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials and stills provided by The Criterion Collection, not the Blu-ray edition under review. John Schlesinger’s followup to his acclaimed hit Midnight Cowboy (1969), though it didn’t win the Oscars and still isn’t as widely known or venerated as its predecessor, still stands as his best, most personal …
Skip It The Courier is a tired thriller, filled with tired actors playing tired characters, wrapped up in a tired story. There is exactly one scene in the movie where anyone looks like they’re making an effort, and it’s the only scene in the movie that’s memorable or interesting
Recommended The Movie: Jane Fonda playing a grandmother? Having watched mostly her older films like Barbarella and Fun With Dick & Jane in recent years, it’s a bit of a shock to see her as an “old person” in Peace, Love and Misunderstanding
DVD Talk Collector Series THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and Criterion’s original 2002 DVD included in the package and not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: There may not be an active filmmaker whose work is so immediately recognizable as Wes Anderson’s. You can walk into a room or switch over in the middle of one of his films and place it within seconds: the intricate production design, the symmetrical compositions, and the elegant tracking shots, lovingly panning from room and room and tableaux to tableaux.
Recommended The Movie: Confusing part out of the way first: although this movie has been titled Cheeky! on the covers of this and previous video releases, the official title that appears onscreen is Transgressing , which is the English-dubbed version of the Italian film Transgredire . With me so far?
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Recommended Not that you need me to tell you this or anything, but the Universal Classic Monsters boxed set hit Blu-ray this month, collecting a slew of the most iconic horror films from Hollywood’s Golden Age. Universal isn’t just spending this Halloween reveling in its past, though; the studio is also Read the entire review