Rent It The Collection: Although this newly released DVD set from stand-up comic and actor Richard Lewis has been titled Bundle of Nerves , it might have been more appropriate to call it Bundle of Crap I Found Lying Around My House . This new title would better speak to the lack of cohesion and consistency of the four selections spread across these two DVDs, as well as providing the only …
Recommended Almost everyone remembers the story of Sleeping Beauty —whether it be the Brothers Grimm fairy tale (itself based on a story by Charles Perrault) or Walt Disney's 1959 animated adaptation—but very few would rank the latter with Disney's very best animated productions. At just 75 minutes in length, the film still feels awfully bloated: after all, the original clocks in at …
Skip It Che! Blu-ray Review Director Richard Fleischer's Che! ( Tora! Tora!Tora! ) is probably best left forgotten. The concept of thefilm is tofocus upon revolution leader Che Guevara during the period of Che'sarrival inCuba during the mid-1950's to his death following an ambush in 1967.The storyis partially told as a dramatic narrative with some emphasis onshowcasingparts of the Cuban …
Recommended I didn't much care for Run Silent Run Deep (1958) when I first saw it during the early days of DVD. Part of the problem was MGM's unimpressive video transfer, which was in unenhanced 1.66:1 widescreen.
Rent It The Movie: The trailer for 1962's Taras Bulba boldly proclaims, “Now, add a motion picture to the wonders of the world!” While “wonder” isn't a word I'd use on this panoramic tale of 16th century Russian warriors conquering in battle and in love, it's suitably impressive drama – and somewhat entertaining (at least in the first half), despite being served up with equal amounts of …
Recommended The Movie: Gary Cooper stars in 1951's sort-of-western (southeastern?) Distant Drums , an independently produced action thriller that plops a small group of soldiers in the middle of the Florida Everglades during the Second Seminole War. Forced to cope with the harsh swamp, while dodging hungry gators and murderous Seminoles, the soldiers trudge their way back to their ship after …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. I try to refrain from calling a movie “The Next…” something when writing these reviews
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Jeremy Gardner's post-apocalyptic The Battery is a good movie without qualifiers, but it is a pretty great movie when you consider the budget is only $6,000.
Highly Recommended The Show: The Comedy Central sketch show Key & Peele is heading into its triumphant fourth season, and so (much more quickly than they did with seasons 1 & 2 ) the cable network has put out another spotless-looking Blu-ray for the show's excellent 13-episode third season. Though the package is a little lighter on bonus features than previous releases, the main episodes are …
Recommended Before 1950, nearly all of the best Westerns were in black-and-white. Partly this was the law of averages, as the vast majority of pre-1950 Westerns were produced in black-and-white to begin with. But other than a few notable exceptions (John Ford's She Wore a Yellow Ribbon , for instance), pre-1950 Technicolor Westerns generally played it safe.