DVD Talk Collector Series THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the film’s promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. The next time you hear someone grousing about how movies are only supposed to be 90 minutes long and anything over two hours is an affront to their patience, hand them a copy of Otto Preminger’s Anatomy of a Murder . After they have sat …
Recommended THE PROGRAM: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from promotional images provided by PBS, not the Blu-ray edition under review. It is both disturbing and unsurprising that The American Experience: Clinton , the recent PBS documentary on the multiple rises and falls of our 42nd president, plays like a melodrama that makes frequents dips into soap opera before righting …
Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the opera’s promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Skip It Yeah, yeah, I get that Reindeer Games isn’t supposed to be good in the sense of…you know, anything, ever…but I couldn’t resist grabbing a copy of the flick on Blu-ray anyway. Maybe it makes me [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] a…
Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less Animated adventure with a hint of humor Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Good animation, Salma Hayek, Zach Galifianakis Likes: Action comedy, Antonio Banderas, the Shreck franchise Dislikes: Wasted talent Hates: Humpty Dumpty The Movie Though your humble reviewer has watched all four Shrek films, and enjoyed them to various degrees, outside of the first one, none …
Highly Recommended The Movie: Age of Heroes is the new WWII film starring Sean Bean and Danny Dyer as Ian Flemings agents of freedom and part of his “30 Commando Assault Unit.” Danny Dyer plays the role of Cpl. Bob Raynes who after a prolonged firefight in which most of his unit is decimated is quickly sent off to a UK military boot camp for punishment, and from what I gather, “retraining.” He …
Highly Recommended Rebecca (1940) is one of three Alfred Hitchcock movies MGM/Fox has released to Blu-ray, the others being Spellbound (1945) and Notorious (1946).
Highly Recommended The Movie: Here’s a film that threw everyone off a bit. There be dragons? If you want to get technical the phrase is actually “Here Be Dragons,” but it was modified a bit for the film
Skip It Zoinks! Abby (Aimee Teegarden) , her kinda-sorta boyfriend Travis (Tony Oller) , and a few other clean-scrubbed fake teenager types think they’ve spotted a gh-gh- ghost ! at Old Man Ely’s creepy ol’ house. I mean, they see a couple of silhouettes dancing in an upstairs window, and…well, what else could it be? Ghosts
Skip It When a senator is murdered, a CIA analyst named Ben Geary (Topher Grace) connects the murders to a series of killings by a group known as the Cassius Seven. All but Cassius was caught or killed, and Geary believes Cassius is back. To assist Brandt in his investigation, the director (Martin Sheen) calls in the man who tracked down the other six: Paul Shepherdson (Richard Gere)