Recommended Though I’ve never been a big fan of hip hop music, I’ve found that movies centered around it are usually enjoyable. 8 Mile for example worked for me even though it was clich d with the whole poor-person-struggling-to-hit-it-big theme, but on the other hand there have been movies like Turn It Up which were extremely forgettable and seemed to just be preying upon their target audiences …
Skip It THE FILM: I can say with some confidence that this isn’t the worst science fiction film Roger Christian has ever directed. That would be Battlefield Earth , the John Travolta/Scientology in space disaster that won four Golden Raspberry Awards and lost Warner Brothers a ton of money
DVD Talk Collector Series Charulata (1964), previously known as The Lonely Wife , is the protagonist of Indian director Satyajit Ray’s straightforward and exquisitely acted humanist drama about a bored, creatively stifled wife whose carefree cousin-in-law inspires her but also threatens her marriage. Adapted from Rabindranath Tagore’s novella The Empty Nest , it’s a simple humanist drama very …
Recommended Producer Walter Mirisch’s Midway (1976) cleverly presented a huge scale, all-star (Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum, James Coburn, etc.) war movie on a deceptively modest budget, a fraction of the cost of movies like Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) and A Bridge Too Far (1977). Where those movies recreated epic battles full-scale, with thousands of extras and real military …
Recommended THE FILM Please Note: The images used here are taken from the standard-definition DVD version of Blancanieves also included, not the Blu-ray edition under review. Pablo Berger’s Blancanieves is a pastiche of selectively recruited silent-film stylings that, like its inevitable comparison-point The Artist (a film that beat it to the punch even though Berger’s was already well into …
Recommended Does a decent ending give an otherwise dull season of TV a free pass? Not exactly, but it helps a little. When The Office (2005-2013) finally ended after years of increasingly diminishing returns, many of those who gave up along the way came back to see how it would all turn out
Rent It Oh, Movie! You had me [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] at ” Frankenstein’s Army “.
DVD Talk Collector Series Submarine movies come in all shapes and sizes, from the highs of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) and The Enemy Below (1957, really half a submarine movie) to the depths of Hellcats of the Navy (1957, not nearly as bad as its reputation) and the absurdities of Atomic Submarine (1960). But Ren Cl ment’s The Damned (1947) is the most authentic submarine movie I’ve ever …
Highly Recommended It seems a bit odd reviewing a Blu-ray disc that sold out even before this reviewer received his own copy in the mail, but hopefully that’s an indicator of Columbia/Sony need to reissue movies like this on its own, or at least allow current distributor Twilight Time another print run. It’s also a sure sign that Body Double (1984), a Brian De Palma movie raked over the coals by …
Highly Recommended It seems a bit odd reviewing a Blu-ray disc that sold out even before this reviewer received his own copy in the mail, but hopefully that’s an indicator of Columbia/Sony need to reissue movies like this on its own, or at least allow current distributor Twilight Time another print run. It’s also a sure sign that Body Double (1984), a Brian De Palma movie raked over the coals by …