Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: ” Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned? ” – Professor Henry Higgins I’ll admit from the get-go, I’m a huge Audrey Hepburn fan, but My Fair Lady is one of my least favorite films she starred in. It’s just too stuffy and too overstuffed
Skip It [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] David James Duncan didn’t just sue to have his name taken off this adaptation of The River Why ; he did his damndest to prevent the filmmakers from using the title of his universally adored c… Read the entire review
Rent It It’s kind of criminal that we’re more than a half-decade into Blu-ray now, and I can still count on one hand how many Hammer films have found their way to high-def the world over. Severin Films is doing what they can to ease that sting, though
DVD Talk Collector Series THE FILM: Whenever I feel obliged to wrack my brains and recall some of the rare, precious bright spots of the 1980s (usually when confronted with the all-too-true conventional wisdom that that decade was culturally moribund and downright reactionary after the political questioning and artistic aspirations/freedoms of the ’70s), what comes immediately to mind is The …
DVD Talk Collector Series The Movie: When I first saw the Yankeeography series of episodes a couple of years ago, I was less than underwhelmed, and thought the series could have used a bit more depth. Apparently I was heard in this regard, because this new set, titled Yankeeography Collector’s Edition Megaset , is all that and the proverbial bag of chips. The New York Yankees are not only at the …
Highly Recommended THE PROGRAM: Please Note: The images used here are promotional stills and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. There are many cinematic points of reference that could be brought to bear on Billy Budd , the 1948 opera (adapted from Herman Melville’s novella) by composer Benjamin Britten, novelist/librettist E.M. Forster, and frequent Britten collaborator Eric …
Skip It THE MOVIE: Please Note: The images used here are from the standard definition DVD included with the Blu-Ray and not from the Blu-Ray itself. Woodrow and Aiden grew up together in Wisconsin, obsessing over their Mad Max VHS and dreaming of how they’d survive the apocalypse.