Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less Harold Lloyd tackles popularity at college Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Classic comedies Likes: Harold Lloyd, good slapstick Dislikes: Most silent films Hates: Big-time college sports, most modern slapstick The Movie The Criterion Collection has long been in the Charlie Chaplin business, but they’ve kept the other members of the silent comedy holy trinity …
Skip It The Film: Several optimistic possibilities rush through one’s mind while watching the trailer for 47 Ronin , Carl Rinsch’s costly feature-length debut. Could it be visually interesting in the vein of Asia’s native martial-arts fantasies? Or, will it offer enough swordsmanship and wizardry within it quasi-historical Japanese context to become something of a guilty pleasure
Rent It The Movie: This DVD release from Image Entertainment collects the nine shorts that the director of Fright Night and Child’s Play created as an exclusive web series for FEARnet. Holland is no stranger to anthology horror, having worked on HBO’s Tales From The Crypt series back when it was still on the air and this new project sees him collaborate with a few faces bound to be familiar to …
Rent It The Movie: Chinese Zodiac (released in its homeland as CZ12 ), a 2012 feature directed by, co-written by and starring the great Jackie Chan, was a highly anticipated picture among the action star’s legions of fans because it was touted as a follow up of sorts to the two popular Armor Of God films. The movie begins with a fantastic sequence in which a man named Hawk (Chan) escapes from a …
Highly Recommended Patrick (Robert Thompson) is hopelessly smitten. He can’t ever seem to turn his eyes away from his latest crush, a pretty young nurse named Kathy (Susan Penhaligon)
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Director Janet Tobias’ documentary No Place On Earth offers new perspective on the Holocaust and that alone makes the film worth watching.
Skip It THE FILM: Trashy B-movie thriller Scorned is really stupid, but damn if AnnaLynne McCord isn’t an engaging actress. She plays unhinged and pissed Sadie, a young woman who discovers that her boyfriend Kevin (Billy Zane) is sleeping with her best friend, Jennifer (Viva Bianca). She lures Kevin to a fancy house on a weekend getaway, drugs him and proceeds to make him wish he’d never laid a …
DVD Talk Collector Series In 10 Words or Less Cheever’s short masterpiece becomes a cult classic Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Cult films, psychological dramas, stories of behind-the-scenes chaos Likes: John Cheever, Burt Lancaster Dislikes: Tales of tragedy, WASP-y troubles Hates: Artists being abused by businessmen The Movie The first time I really connected with something I was assigned to read for …
Highly Recommended While troops on the front lines wait for D-Day, the high command of the American Navy is serviced by the wait staff in fancy London hotels. Lieutenant Commander Charlie Madison (James Garner) is a “dog robber”, a man who specializes in providing all the luxuries of home: food, clothes, booze, women — and he’s very good at what he does. Visitors excitedly agree his hotel room …
DVD Talk Collector Series Akira Kurosawa set out to make The Hidden Fortress ( Kakushi toride no san akunin or “Three Bad Men of the Hidden Fortress,” 1958) as “100% Entertainment.” In that he succeeds completely. The movie, later the basis for the first Star Wars (1977), to the point where Hidden Fortress star Toshiro Mifune was even considered for the role of Obi-Wan Kenobi, remains as …