Highly Recommended The Film: Porco Rosso rarely finds itself at the top of most Studio Ghibli “favorite” lists, which are often capped off with the works of Hayao Miyazaki involving whimsical creatures of the forest and grand narratives hinged on being transported to dream-like settings. His tale of a veteran WWI pilot turned bounty hunter who's been cursed with the vestige of a pig doesn't have …
Highly Recommended Though it takes place during the American Civil War—which has no shortage of big and small screen “adaptations”, for lack of a better word—Chris Eska's The Retrieval (2013) doesn't feel like many period-specific historical dramas that have come before it.
Rent It Track the Man Down (1954) is an extremely mild thriller about the manhunt following a greyhound track robbery, of interest today mainly for its cast, and because it was one of a small handful of pictures made by Republic Pictures' British subsidiary. (Presumably, Republic made films there to access funds that could only be spent in Britain.) Like the contemporaneous co-productions …
Highly Recommended The Movie: As the holiday video gifts of December transition into January, we get the occasional underrated film before February's release of films aspiring for any award possible. And with The Drop , we experience a film that came and went perhaps a little too quickly, also was perhaps noted for something out of its control. Yet on its merits, the film deserves a place in (or …
Rent It Despite a good cast, a great title, and an even better poster (see below), World for Ransom (1954) is a terrible Cold War thriller, though not without interest. It was Robert Aldrich's second film as director following Big Leaguer (1953), though quite possibly World for Ransom was made first and released after. Many consider World for Ransom a dry run for Aldrich's great nihilistic noir …
Rent It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Liam Neeson is the guy to call when stuff needs doing
Highly Recommended The Movie: Daniel Day-Lewis won his first Academy Award for director Jim Sheridan's 1989 film, My Left Foot , portraying real-life artist and writer Christy Brown. As the title (taken from a memoir Brown wrote at age 22) hints, Brown is best known for painting and typing using only his left foot
Recommended Attack Of The Morningside Monster: Attack your DVD player with this truly original horror drama from director Chris Ethridge. Featuring a fantastic cast including the increasingly more-awesome Tiffany Shepis, Attack tackles heavy themes with humor, horror, torture and more. Yeah, you might guess the twist fairly easily
Rent It The good news, I guess, is that if you haven't gotten around to seeing The Conjuring , this feature-length spin-off stands completely on its own. A few lines vaguely reference the Warrens, the psychic ghostbusters from that earlier film who aren't even mentioned by name here in-dialogue, but that's about it.
Recommended The Movie: Underneath all of its dry paleontological information and labyrinthine legal details, Dinosaur 13 tells the tragic love story between a team of scientists and a dinosaur. It starts with a stunning discovery made by The Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, a modest paleontological organization located in a tiny South Dakotan town