Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: All of the images used here are from the accompanying standard-definition DVD and are not taken from the Blu-ray under review.
Rent It In 10 Words or Less Every parent’s nightmare, every teen’s dream Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Frat House Likes: Todd Phillips, Found-footage films Dislikes: Teenagers Hates: Anarchy, a lack of reality, high-school popularity The Movie The first time I’d ever heard of Todd Phillips was when a saw his film Frat House , which he made with Andrew Gurland ( The Virginity Hit , The Last Exorcism …
Recommended In 10 Words or Less Tosh.0 on Blu-Ray is overkill Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Funny internet clips Likes: Daniel Tosh, Tosh.0 , Web Soup Dislikes: Gross-out comedy, viewer videos Hates: Clip-show bits The Show Once upon a time, there were TV shows hosted by comedians that featured internet content as far as the eye could see, with Web Junk 20 , Web Soup and Tosh.0 .
DVD Talk Collector Series THE FILM: Please Note: All of the images used here are from promotional materials and are not taken from the Blu-ray under review. Astutely predicting the outcry that would surely erupt from various Charlie Chaplin purists and completists were they to have put out only one Gold Rush or the other, Criterion is now releasing the 1925 classic as what amounts to one Blu-ray …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are promotional and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. Thanks to The Criterion Collection, summer 2012 is, aptly , Bergman season: In concurrence with their release of the Swedish master’s 1953 turning-point film Summer with Monika , they’re also making available an earlier sea-and-sun youthful-romance reverie, his …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are promotional and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. The inbuilt (and not really disprovable) suspicion on the part of young people in love that some latent tragedy always lurks within their overpowering emotions has long been a perpetually renewable resource for storytellers who can convincingly confirm it, with …
Highly Recommended Certified Copy recreates a world that, down to the most minute detail, is entrancingly, enthrallingly real until it’s not. Such a dramatic statement likely brings to mind the ambitious sort of science fiction that encourages viewers to question everything in front of them.
Recommended Survival horror isn’t exactly a new genre. From John Carpenter’s The Thing to Lord of the Flies and The Descent , these films often focus on unwitting strangers who gradually get picked off by predators, environmental disasters or, in some cases, each other.
Recommended The Movie: Seeing Meryl Streep win the Academy Award for her work in The Iron Lady was nice to witness, but lost in the tidal wave of praise for that performance was the fact that Glenn Close had returned for another round of critical acclaim, earning her sixth Oscar nomination for her work in Albert Nobbs . And while Streep had not won her second Oscar in a while, Close has yet to …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. An old-fashioned, progressive social-problem film, Mario Monicelli’s energetic, down-to-earth 1963 strike drama The Organizer combines the lyrical beauty of socialist realism with a Neorealist tough-mindedness of sensibility, avoiding the much-maligned slack …