Skip It THE MOVIE: Oh, American history! So full of passion, intrigue, and even more passion. What a soap opera you are! How many crises were solved with longing looks across wooden tables
Recommended The Movies: Despite the fact that the original solo Mothra film, which debuted in 1961, is well regarded amongst fans of Japanese giant monster movies, most know the character from her various supporting appearances in the Godzilla movies. Well, in the late nineties, Toho decided to give Mothra another solo shot and thus were born three films in the Rebirth Of Mothra trilogy
Highly Recommended The Movie: Directed by the late, great special effects titan Stan Winston (his first feature as a director) based on the poem by Ed Justin, 1988's Pumpkinhead is the tragic tale of a man named Ed Harley (Lance Henriksen) who owns and operates a local grocery store in the deep south.
Highly Recommended Cardcaptor Sakura Complete Series Premium Edition Blu-ray Cardcaptor Sakura is one of the most successful shojo anime(and manga) series ever created. Based upon the popular serializedmangacreated by the popular all-girl manga group Clamp, CardcaptorSakura became a huge success that spawned the creationof this equally beloved series, two feature films connected to theseries …
Recommended The Movie: Musical biopics are the worst. They tend to exhibit the most infuriating aspects of regular biopics — the many shortcuts screenwriters take to squeeze a human life into three acts and 120 pages — plus they have an added requirement: they gotta play the hits.
Highly Recommended Please Note: The screen shots used here are taken from the DVD portion of Chaplin's Mutual Comedies. The Movies: Like The Beatles in 1964 or Michael Jackson in 1983, Chaplin's Mutual Comedies 1916-17 gives you Charlie Chaplin, Pop Culture Icon at the peak of his popularity.
Recommended The Movie: As far as mainstream acceptance of LGBT people are concerned, it looks like TV has done a better job lately than feature film did. Shows like Will & Grace and Glee has done wonders in terms of promoting tolerance while still providing simple and corny entertainment. On the other hand, feature films that bring LGBT issues and characters to the forefront tend to get stuck …
Rent It The Movie: The pleasant, straightforward Burt's Buzz documents a few weeks in the life of Burt Shavitz, otherwise known as the scraggly-bearded man pictured on those Burt's Bees skin care products stocked in drug stores everywhere. Like Kentucky Fried Chicken's Colonel Sanders, it can be disarming to think that there's a real person behind the merchandise. Just as one couldn't picture …
Rent It THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. I'll admit, sometimes the deck is stacked.
Highly Recommended Where's the love for Stanley Kramer? Dismissed for half a century as a minimally talented producer-director of “message pictures,” Kramer is long overdue for a major reappraisal. As a producer he made some of the finest films of the late 1940s through the mid- 50s: Champion , Home of the Brave (both 1949), The Men (1950), High Noon (1952), The Wild One (1953), The Caine Mutiny …