Recommended Although the calendar might have already flipped to the 1970s, culture was still pretty much still in the spirit of the late 60s before giving way to the excesses of corporate rock and disco that were to come later in the decade. On the heels of the legendary 1969 Woodstock music festival, promoter Ken Walker had an idea for a festival further north in Canada. He chartered a train …
Recommended The Movie: Clint Eastwood’s 2004 film, Million Dollar Baby , took home Oscar’s that year for Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Director and was nominated for three other categories.
Recommended Franck Adrien (Albert Dupontel) is just a few weeks away from the end of his prison sentence for bank robbery. Not only is he looking forward to returning home to his beautiful wife, Anna (Caterina Murino) and lovely daughter, Amelie (Jaia Caltagirone), but he’s also got the haul from the robbery stashed away, which the police are still interested in finding. His cellmate, Jean-Louis …
DVD Talk Collector Series The Movie: Years of parody and homage and outright emulation have done little to dim the magnificence of Fran ois Truffaut’s third feature film, Jules and Jim .
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. A film about Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone escaping a maximum-security prison together is either going to be something you want to see or it isn’t. Escape Plan slid under the radar last fall and seemed like the icing on a particularly bad year for the indestructible duo following their …
Highly Recommended The Movie: Even though About Time ‘s key conceit is that lanky ginger Tim (Domhnall Gleeson, Brendan’s boy) has inherited from his father (the perpetually awesome Bill Nighy) the ability to travel back in time to previously lived moments in his life and change them as he sees fit, writer-director Richard Curtis ( Love Actually , Notting Hill ) is not all that interested in …
Recommended Khumba , produced in South Africa, didn’t get a theatrical release here in the States but it’s been released on disc from Millennium Entertainment. The title character (voiced by Jake T
Skip It Clyde Barrow (Emile Hirsch) is a young troublemaker blessed with a “second sight” — an ability to see his own future. Bonnie Parker (Holliday Grainger) is a very young girl with dreams of Hollywood stardom
Highly Recommended Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. The TV Series: Of all the filmed versions of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice , the 1995 BBC-A&E television production seems to be the one that people (especially women) keep returning to again and again. Why is that?
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