Recommended Note: Before we get started, I’d like to say, I don’t know if I’m using appropriate terms for describing the Special Olympians in this film, but I tried to avoid the obviously insulting ones (except for the Tropic Thunder reference in the opening section and any quotes from the film.) I’m not defending any mistakes I make. I’m just trying to save you an email by letting you know I’m …
Highly Recommended The Lunchbox Blu-ray Review The Lunchbox was a surprise indie success in theUnited States box-office and it has already become one of the mostunexpectedhits of the entire year worldwide. The effort is from first-timefilmmaker Ritesh Batraand it stars acclaimed actors Irrfan Khan and Nimrat Kaur
Highly Recommended The Movie: Released in 1955, The Man from Laramie is a masterful conclusion to a run of five “psychological” Westerns starring James Stewart and directed by Anthony Mann, which began with 1950’s similarly excellent Winchester ’73 .
Recommended Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries – Season 2 – Blu-ray Review It’s time for a little bit of an imported mysteryphenomenon: Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries is a popular andacclaimedtelevision production produced in Australia that has literally “madewaves” outside of its home country by being imported to over 120differentstations and distributors around the globe. It’s become a huge …
Highly Recommended With north of 150 movies under his belt, spanning everything from spy thrillers to nunsploitation to lesbian vampires, how could Jess Franco not direct a slasher flick? Bloody Moon isn’t subtle about it either. I mean, this 1981 slasher opens with a mute killer putting on a cheap, plastic mask — complete with P.O.V
DVD Talk Collector Series Douglas Sirk’s All That Heaven Allows (1955), a slyly subversive romantic melodrama starring Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson, like other Sirk (and Ross Hunter-produced) films from the same era, has a strange history. When it was new, the film was a big, mainstream success though dismissed by critics as a trashy women’s “weapie.” Twenty-five years later it was regarded as …
Rent It THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. Noted character actor David Morse ( Treme ) takes center-stage in the psychological police drama McCanick .
Highly Recommended Note : Although screencaps can only tell so much of the story, click any capture (taken straight from the disc) in this review to expand the image to full size. Also, if you’re curious as to why DVDTalk is reviewing this title a second time, skip to the “The Blu-Ray” section of this review for an explanation.
Rent It There’s just something about murderous little moppets. I don’t know why, but whenever I stumble across a movie with kids savagely slaughtering the adults around them, I have to watch: The Children (both the 1980 and 2008 movies) The Bad Seed , Village of the Damned , Beware! Children at Play , Children of the Corn , The Brood , Mutant , and the list goes on and on and on.
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Oliver Stone appears to have taken personally much of the criticism lobbed at his big-budget 2004 dramatization of Alexander the Great’s life, which underperformed stateside and received some gleefully nasty critical reviews. I saw the film in theaters, and, while heavily flawed, Alexander showed sparks of …