Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials provided by Janus Films , not the Blu-ray edition under review. How might one go about transforming the rundown, low-rent districts, shipyards, and other workaday views in a non-tourist-attraction French port city into a visually lovely, sweet setting for a storybook-like political-fable film …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials provided by Janus Films , not the Blu-ray edition under review. How might one go about transforming the rundown, low-rent districts, shipyards, and other workaday views in a non-tourist-attraction French port city into a visually lovely, sweet setting for a storybook-like political-fable film …
Highly Recommended Twentieth Century-Fox completely reinvented itself during 1953-54. Prior to 1953, Fox was famous for classy, first-rate movies like All About Eve , Broken Arrow , The Gunfighter (all 1950), The Day the Earth Stood Still , The House on Telegraph Hill , The Desert Fox (1951), Viva Zapata! (1952), Gentleman Prefer Blondes , Titanic , and Pickup on South Street (1953)
Recommended A remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s Dial M for Murder (1954) and the Frederick Knott play from which it was derived, A Perfect Murder (1998) cannily reconfigures its plot and characters for a much more cynical, modern day audience. Patrick Smith Kelly’s screenplay deviates from its source quite a bit, but the results aren’t terrible
Recommended In 10 Words or Less Making a movie from a game works with talented people Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Madeline Kahn, Tim Curry, Clue Likes: Everyone else in the movie Dislikes: Extra-less Blu-Rays Hates: Missing Kahn The Movie It seems like Clue finds its way before my eyes every now and then, and I remember that it’s one of my favorite movies, starring some of my favorite actors, before …
DVD Talk Collector Series THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are stills provided by StudioCanal or from the film’s original promotion, and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. “Frontiers are an invention of Man; Nature doesn’t give a damn.” – Rosenthal, La Grande illusion In some strange but salient way, Jean Renoir’s 1937 masterpiece, which has at its center a trio of …
Rent It The Movie: When I revisited the 2011 World Series earlier in the year, I really enjoyed how the series’ momentum between the Texas Rangers and St. Louis Cardinals swung back and forth many times through the course of the series, and that Game 6 “was the most tension-filled and perhaps one of the best in recent Series memory.” And to presumably further the case of this, A&E (in …
Highly Recommended The Movie: Long before Martin Scorsese would become for lack of a better phrase, Martin Scorsese was hungrily trying to get his personal film Mean Streets some big studio support and distribution, particularly in light of friend Francis Ford Coppola’s success with The Godfather . However Scorsese felt that his was a film closer and truer to his experiences growing up. But not …
Recommended The Series: To start – a recap of the series blatantly swiped from the review of the Season One Blu-ray set: Created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, The Big Bang Theory is based around the exploits of two roommates, Leonard Hofstadter (Johnny Galecki) and Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons), who share an apartment together and work as physicists at the California Institute of Technology …
Skip It THE FILM: Channing Tatum is in demand these days after stripping for Steven Soderbergh and fighting crime undercover with Jonah Hill. Step Up , released back in 2006, is not up to par with Tatum’s more recent films, and plays like a bland knockoff of the already-middle-of-the-road Save the Last Dance .