Highly Recommended The Sopranos – Complete Series – Blu-ray Review Few television series have had the level of impact that TheSopranos had. Not only did it help to make HBO an even largersuccess (with original programming becoming one of its staples of itsentertainment),this was clearly a show that almost singlehandedly helped to change thetelevision landscape into what it has become today …
Recommended NOTE: The images featured here were taken from promotional materials and do not reflect the quality of the Blu-ray under review. The Movie: Land Ho! is mumblecore for the post-middle-aged
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. Serge Bourguignon's Sundays and Cyb le , a 1962 drama that went on to win the Best Foreign Language Oscar the following year, is a unique movie. The only other film it brings to mind is Ren Cl ment's Forbidden Games , the tale of two young …
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Recommended THE FILM: Perhaps Sylvester Stallone should recruit Christopher Walken if he makes another Expendables film. Fresh off an Academy Award win for The Deer Hunter , Walken played a mercenary for John Irvin in The Dogs of War . This meat-and-potatoes thriller sees Walken battling a ruthless African dictator and shady international business tycoons while his personal life crumbles
Skip It THE FILM: With Jason Segel and Cameron Diaz as the leads, I assumed there would be plenty of laughs in Jake Kasdan's comedy about a missing sex tape. I was wrong
Recommended The Movie: The third and final part of Sion Sono's so-called Hate Trilogy (preceded by the film's Love Exposure and then Cold Fish , both of which are definitely recommended for fans of this director's outsider filmography), 2011's Guilty of Romance debuts on Blu-ray in North America for the first time thanks to Olive Films.
Recommended The Movie: Set in a Japan recently ravaged by a powerful Tsunami, Sion Sono's 2011 picture Himizu takes place in a country that has essentially lost a war, not with another country, but with mother nature. Large portions of the populace have lost their homes and in tents and while what's left of the army and police forces do what they can to maintain law and order, as it stands the …
Recommended Note : Although screencaps should only be considered an idea of what the disc looks like, click any capture in this review to expand the image to a full size .png. Elizabeth Lipp (Melina Mercouri) — not her real name — is the kind of woman who gets what she wants. Right now, she's got her eye on a little something: the four most precious emeralds in the world, encrusted onto a …
DVD Talk Collector Series The Movie: During a vintage interview included on this essential Blu-Ray release of La Dolce Vita from Criterion, director Federico Fellini confesses that he hates talking about his own work in detail, because he thinks the filmmaker should be the last person to talk about their creation. Once the work is out there, he believes that it belongs to the audience from that …