Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from the 2006 DVD edition , not the Blu-ray edition under review. In answer to the longstanding cinematic riddle that asks how you can transport your audience into a profound emotional state and move them in a way they’ve never been moved before, all while steering clear of contrivance, cheap manipulation, or sentimentality …
Recommended The Movies: First things first – those of you who already own the recent director’s cut Blu-ray release of Mimic ? The first disc in this two disc set which compiles the three films in the series is identical to that release outside of the cover art
Highly Recommended THE PROGRAM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials provided by PBS, not the Blu-ray edition under review. The word “infrastructure” most often hits our ears when tossed off by one politician or another, but to what extent do we grasp what our cities’, states’, or nation’s infrastructure actually is — what it looks like, how it came to be, how …
Highly Recommended The interesting, anomalous science fiction horror film The Asphyx (1973), a picture unjustly all but forgotten until recently, was the product of several converging trends.
Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials provided by HBO Films, not the Blu-ray edition under review. I have never seen the groundbreaking 1973 PBS documentary series An American Family , but I have long been aware of it; it’s often cited as the first step American TV took toward the televised “reality” that’s proven as enduringly popular as it …
Highly Recommended The Movie: In a straightforward and simple way, the cover of the Pariah Blu-ray case includes the definitions for the word that the film uses as its title. And while the definitions like “outcast” and “rejected member of society” may sound overdramatic at first, one could make the case that such interpretations are not hard to get to, and the film makes a strong case as to why …
Highly Recommended The Descendants Blu-ray Review The Descendants is a tale about families, the necessity of love, and the determinationto be capable of moving forward.
Recommended Wizards Blu-ray Review RalphBakshi certainly seemed to recognize unique ways to createsci-fi/fantasyworlds in animation. Wizards doesn’t necessarilyseem reminiscent of anything else. Perhaps other Ralph Bakshi movies?Even thatdoesn’t seem to be a positive given because of how this particularfilmmakingexperience was aimed at appealing more directly to families and a wideraudiencethan …
Highly Recommended Dateline! 1969. In this corner: a ragtag bunch of vets fresh off a particularly brutal tour of duty in Vietnam.
DVD Talk Collector Series There have been far too many “reboots,” “reimaginings,” and “reimagineerings” lately. And, anyway, aren’t those terms merely euphemisms for “Sure, we’ve made truckloads of money, but we can generate even more dough starting from scratch over and marketing an ‘event,’ rather than a mere sequel”?