Highly Recommended Across television and film, there are at least 32 adaptations of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. In an amusing recurring gag, the Dwight Twilley Band’s “Looking for Magic,” from their 1977 LP Twilley Don’t Mind , plays on loop from the CD player of the philandering couple murdered in the opening scene of You’re Next , Director Adam Wingard’s very funny, very bloody and long-shelved horror film …
Rent It Carrie Blu-ray Review Carrie isthelatest in a long running string of remakes of much-beloved films in thehorrorgenre that includes far too many films to even list or begin to count.Thistime around, the director is Kimberly Peirce ( Boys Don’tCry, Stop-Loss ) and the star is the up-and-comer ChloëGrace Moretz ( Hugo , Let Me In , Kick Ass ) in the role of Carrie White. The film …
DVD Talk Collector Series Some movies get a bum rap. Such is the case of Raise the Titanic (1980), a critical flop and, more importantly, a colossal commercial failure with $7 million in U.S. and Canadian earnings against a $40 million negative cost
Rent It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. In the opening scenes of We Are What We Are , the matriarch of the Parker family rushes to her truck in a downpour, tense and in fear.
Rent It The Movie: A creature-feature comedy whose premise brings to mind the ’80s work of Frank Henenlotter ( Basket Case ) and Joe Dante ( Gremlins ), Bad Milo! unfortunately lacks a bit of those filmmakers’ gonzo convictions to take their stories to the most imaginative extremes. That’s not to say that the movie is a bust, because there’s a lot for genre and comedy fans to like in Bad Milo …
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. “You are she who is not, I am he who is. ” If ever a film embodied a state of mind, it would be Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1983 release, Nostalghia .
Rent It The title might be “Run”, but the word they want you to know is parkour , which the back cover defines as “always moving forward despite obstacles within the environment.” I’ve known the word only from that sample clip from “The Office” that comes on whenever I bring up the Hulu Plus app on my TV to remind myself why I don’t subscribe to it, which defines parkour as “getting from point A …
Highly Recommended The Movie: Hail Mary is one of two films directed by Jean-Luc Godard that the Cohen Media Group is releasing in beautiful new Blu-ray editions (the other is For Ever Mozart ). Originally released in 1985, Hail Mary is considered part of Godard’s “second Golden Age,” where his experimentation and intellectualism managed to not alienate wider audiences and he managed to have …
Highly Recommended Director Richard Lester’s Royal Flash (1975) was a relatively late-comer to DVD, being released by Twentieth Century-Fox Home Entertainment in 2007, full of extra features and a fine video transfer, but all but dumped onto the marketplace with little-to-no fanfare.