Highly Recommended The Movie: Nothing is quite so exciting a movie experience as the claustrophobic thriller. Director Jeremy Lovering provides that closed in feeling inside of a compact car, roaming lost around the isolated byways of Ireland, in his tightly wound film In Fear .
Recommended Filmed in North Braddock, Pennsylvania (just outside of Pittsburgh) Scott Cooper’s Out of the Furnace (2013) examines a handful of characters in a town crippled by a failing economy, their own bad choices and/or quite a bit of bad luck. Our central characters are Russell (Christian Bale) and Rodney Baze (Casey Affleck), two brothers who have taken decidedly different paths in life …
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. In hindsight I’d say I should have watched The Best Man before watching its direct sequel, The Best Man Holiday
Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less Disney continues their non-Pixar hot streak Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Animated movies, Bobby Lopez Likes: Idina Menzel, Kristen Bell Dislikes: Chick flicks, simplistic comedy Hates: Weak bonus content The Movie I may have a slight bias against Walt Disney Animation Studios.
Recommended The Movie: Jean-Claude Van Damme should play the villain more often.
Rent It TheSeries: Big History is a way of looking at the past with a broader perspectivethan historians have traditionally used (or so the adherents claim).Instead of looking a linear progression of events, the field tries toembrace the whole of history and science in order to discoverpreviously unknown links between seemingly disparate events. At leastthat’s the theory. My only exposure to the …
Rent It The Movie: The throwback action flick Homefront is at its finest when Jason Statham is pummeling bad guys with his fists. Unfortunately, that only amounts to about 7 minutes out of the movie’s total 100.
Highly Recommended The Movie: After a seven year break from filmmaking following the 1981 release of Polyester , Baltimore’s John Waters returned to directing films and made what would be his first shot at ‘the mainstream.’ This picture, 1988’s Hairspray , would also be the last film he’d make for New Line for a decade. The film would also be a historic moment in his career as it would make the …
Recommended The Film: It’s common for those who aren’t politicians to want to live in the shoes of decision makers for a brief period, just so they might be able to put their perspective and values in motion to fix some of the problems created by questionable, self-focused bureaucracy.
Recommended The Grandmaster Blu-ray Review TheGrandmaster isthe latest film from one ofHong Kong’s most acclaimed filmmakers, Wong Kar Wai ( ChungkingExpress , 2046 , My Blueberry Nights ). It is a new telling of the story of IpMan, arenowned martial artist who is well known for having trained thelegendaryBruce Lee