Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The screengrabs used here are from the standard-definition DVD released in 2002, not from the Blu-Ray. It’s hard to believe it’s been ten years since Steven Soderbergh’s Traffic landed in cinemas.
Recommended A Blu-ray release of Stars and Stripes Forever (1952), a biopic of composer/band leader John Philip Sousa (1854-1932), is welcome if somewhat baffling. Though popular when it was new, it would seem an awfully hard sell in 2012 – perhaps distributor Fox is betting consumers will confuse it with Warner Home Video’s The Music Man (1962). Usually deep catalog titles like this are tied to …
Highly Recommended The Movie: One of Jean Rollin’s more interesting films, 1975s Levres De Sang (better known in North America as Lips Of Blood , which is how it was released on DVD a few years back from Image/Redemption and how it’s being re-released again through Redemption and Kino with this Blu-ray debut!) begins with the simple image of a van heading through the night towards an eerie old …
Highly Recommended There’s…I don’t know, there’s a word I’m looking for here — one word that tells you everything you need to know about the second season of Archer without having to slog through a whole long, rambling review. I think it goes something like: You were supposed to click the ‘Play’ button on that, by the way
Recommended THE MOVIE: On the way out of my first viewing of Mateo Gil’s Blackthorn , I overheard someone calling it a “standard Western”–as if that would be a bad thing, if there were any such thing anymore. Making a Western these days is anything but standard; they’re enough of a novelty that it’s still worth being thankful when we get one, and not dismissing it for being less than a …