Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. You gotta love a good bummer, and there’s no bummer quite as good the 1941 tearjerker Penny Serenade
Recommended The Movie: One of the main takeaways about the film This Is 40 (other than how long it seemed to feel) was how the Paul Rudd character and by extension, the film’s director Judd Apatow were fans of bands that had perhaps been overlooked during their contemporary period and they should be given ample attention now. And with Apatow’s fondness for the band Graham Parker and The Rumour …
Skip It Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. The Movie: Let me preface this review with a disclaimer: I never liked Danny Kaye all that much. As a kid, I was baffled by his doddering presence on TV (in Disney specials, on talk shows) and always wondered why he was famous in the first place
Rent It Jean-Francois Laguionie’s The Painting (2011) is an animated oddity. Essentially, this fable aims to remind its audience that appearance shouldn’t matter, especially since we have no choice of lives before we’re created
Rent It The Movie: The latest film from the animated wing of 20th Century Fox is Epic , following in the wings of similarly one word-titled animated films full of adventure, wonder and bravado. But just how well this film measures to the recent crop of similar ones in the genre remained to be seen for me until I finally experienced the slightly hyperbolic Epic on Blu-ray. So time to crack open …