Recommended North to Alaska (1960) is a big-scale but disappointing John Wayne Western-romantic comedy set in Nome at the turn of the century. It was produced in part to cash-in on Alaska’s recent statehood, but was mainly an attempt by powerful producer-talent agent Charles K. Feldman to provide his then-girlfriend, French model-turned-actress Capucine, with a career-boosting star vehicle …
Recommended The Beast Within (1982) is a pretty terrible, at times unsavory, but slickly made horror film with an especially good cast of character actors. You might not recognize Ronny Cox, Bibi Besch, Don Gordon, R.G
Rent It Reviewed by Glenn Erickson The early and middle 1960s were the real boom years for American-International Pictures, when their “Beach Party” movie series was pulling down high rentals and Vincent Price horror pictures were being reviewed as prestige productions. A.I.P
Recommended Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Recommended Johann (Bobby Sommer) is a security guard in the Kunsthistorisches Art Museum in Vienna. Once a rock-and-roll tour manager, Johann has started to look for peace and quiet in his old age, and the museum provides everything he could want: an opportunity for serenity, an opportunity to observe the artwork, and an opportunity to observe the people who come in to do the same thing
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. The father and son relationship at the heart of Lee Daniels’ The Butler nearly eclipses the story proper, which concerns African-American Cecil Gaines, a longtime White House butler who served during eight administrations over 34 years
DVD Talk Collector Series For once the tag lines were accurate: “Wild. Wonderful. Sinful.
Rent It Dateline! 1980. Rumors have started making the rounds about some sort of accident at the nuclear power plant down the way.
Recommended TheShow: In Japan, the government funded Young Animator Training Project grantsmoney to companies for the express purpose of passing on animationexpertise to the next generation through on-the-job training withnovice animators working with more experienced talent.
Recommended The Movie: A couple weeks ago, my girlfriend emailed me a link about a Finnish word, “my t h pe .” The website she linked to defined the word as “the feeling of shame you experience on behalf of another person or a character when they do something stupid or embarassing.” She sent me this because I frequently suffer from my t h pe when watching TV and movies.