Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less More minions, but too much stuffing Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Animation, Minions, Despicable Me Likes: Kristin Wiig, Steve Carell Dislikes: Meaningless sequels Hates: The Story So Far… The first film from Chris Meledandri’s Illumination Entertainment, Despicable Me was a out-of-nowhere hit, telling the animated story of Gru (Steve Carell), a supervillain …
Skip It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. I may not be the target audience for young adult film adaptation The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones but I was willing to give it a fair shake.
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Rent It The majority of American film fans will only maybe know Jay Chou from The Green Hornet , the underrated Michel Gondry-directed, Seth Rogen / Evan Goldberg-scripted adaptation that cast the actor as actual hero Kato to Rogen’s dim Hornet. In his home country of China, however, Chou rose to fame as a songwriter for numerous pop acts after an appearance on a televised competition show, then …
Recommended The Movie: Michael Cera is a jerk in his new movie. And not the playing-against-type cartoon jerk he was in This Is The End or even the endearingly oblivious and cowardly semi-jerk at the center of Scott Pilgrim vs
Rent It THE SHOW: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. HBO’s latest “miniseries event” certainly has an impressive CV
Recommended Barbara (2012) is a low-key, nearly minimalist drama about an East German doctor trying to keep co-workers and neighbors at arm’s length while she plots to flee to the West and into the arms of the West German boyfriend trying to facilitate her escape.
Skip It The Movie: I am not entirely sure where one could place a Shroud of Turin on the movie formula where a young actor that has been labeled (either by the populous or in increasing cases recently by a movie studio) the next big thing or an up and comer is cast opposite a veteran actor or actors. Perhaps a director is included in the mix. But growing up, I can recall Tom Cruise almost …
Recommended Even among fans of the happily rediscovered Italian filmmaker Mario Bava, Baron Blood ( Gli orrori del castello di Norimberga , “The Horrors of Nuremberg Castle,” 1972) is considered pretty minor. A throwback to a more classical Gothic age of horror movie practically extinct by 1972, it’s actually not all that bad, with several nice set pieces courtesy Bava’s distinctive lighting and …
DVD Talk Collector Series East of Eden Blu-ray Review Click onan image to view the Blu-rayscreenshot with 1080p resolution Eastof Eden Read the entire review