Umberto D.: The Criterion Collection (Blu-ray)
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials/stills, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
September 16, 2012
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Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials/stills, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Rent It In a nutshell, this new Blu-Ray collection from AnimEigo collects all six original Lone Wolf and Cub films, adapted from the popular manga created by Kazuo Koike. Produced and released between 1972 and 1974, they captured the books’ colorful celebration of poetic violence, bloodshed and revenge. These six films are briefly summarized below, followed by a technical review of AnimEigo’s …
Skip It The Movie: It’s been quite a while since I’ve tackled an independent romantic comedy, but I heard a lot of things, good and bad, about Lola Versus , so why the hell not, right? And on Blu-ray no less. Lola Versus has a peculiar title, because it’s whatever you want it to be.
Recommended THE FILM: I must confess that Hocus Pocus was one of my favorite Disney movies as a child. It didn’t pander to kids, and the danger felt real
Highly Recommended THE SHOW: ” I had a beautiful dream about a gumball machine. Can I tell you about it? ” Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review
Recommended I grew up with the iconic Terminator franchise. As a young boy, a friend and I would pal up in the woods and pretend to take on Skynet together. I was so obsessed with The Terminator ‘s mythology that I was allowed to see Terminator 2 – Judgment Day upon its initial release when I was just 9 years old.
Skip It THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. If you’ve ever been on the fence about having kids, seeing The Babymakers will make up your mind
Skip It You sort of have to hand it to Sony: against all odds, they managed to turn Starship Troopers — which only earned $120m worldwide against a $100m budget — into a surprisingly valuable franchise. First, there was the seemingly popular animated TV series “Roughnecks,” followed by two live-action direct-to-video sequels. Last year, Sony announced a remake was also in the works, but that …
Recommended Here’s the thing about classic horror movie fans: they’ll eagerly sample absolutely everything, no matter how awful, how outr .
Highly Recommended My “memories” of Quadrophenia are by association only. I had never seen the movie until this Blu-ray release from The Criterion Collection, but I had been aware of it – perhaps excessively so – thanks to the neo-Mods of my teenage years. This was in the early 1990s, and although it would be easy enough to label these neo-Mods as misguided poseurs (which they most certainly …