DVD Talk Collector Series Well this is a treat! As a movie, Dragonfly Squadron (1954) is fairly ordinary, a war movie with a familiar story and genre stereotypes: hardline, humorless commanding officer; sly second-in-command, subordinate with a personal grudge against his commanding officer, a woman emotionally torn between the dedicated, self-sacrificing doctor she married and the commanding …
Skip It Of all the criticisms one could direct at a movie, “cliched” is probably the most common, but to call a movie “cliched” isn't entirely straightforward.
Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less “Weird Al”'s cinematic highlight Reviewer's Bias* Loves: “Weird Al” Yankovic, UHF Likes: Sketch films Dislikes: Anniversary editions light on new content Hates: The disappearance of low-budget UHF stations The Story So Far… UHF was released on DVD in June of 2002, and DVDTalk has a review of that release . The Movie Though at first glance it makes little …
Rent It Not to be confused with Renny Harlin's The Legend of Hercules —and don't worry, it probably won't be—Brett Ratner's Hercules (2014) is yet another sword-and-sandal epic featuring brave warriors facing off against nigh-unstoppable evil forces.
Highly Recommended The Movie: It's beyond a doubt that Dog Day Afternoon is a timeless masterpiece that revolutionized the bank robbery genre and is one of the most important works of 70s American cinema, thought by many, myself included, to be the greatest period in film history. Considering Sidney Lumet is one of my top five favorite directors and Dog Day Afternoon is my second favorite film …
Recommended Content: Based on the critically acclaimed PlayStation 3/X-Box 360 video game, Bayonetta , comes Bayonetta: Bloody Fate , a somewhat sequel/retelling of the original game. With the writers from the game and the studio behind the production of the aesthetically stunning, Last Exile and the anime powerhouse, Hellsing , all on board.
By adding its video service to Roku devices, Google is going after more streaming-content purchases while trying to get a leg up on Amazon. The post Bad News for Amazon: Google Play Movies and TV Are Now on Roku appeared first on WIRED .
Recommended The Movie: Made two years after the seminal Re-Animator and once again produced by Charles Band and Empire Pictures, Stuart Gordon's Dolls is part horror movie, part black comedy and part fairy tale and while it does tend to lean towards the clich s often associated with horror films, that doesn't diminish the film's entertainment value.
Highly Recommended The success of the James Bond movies, Thunderball (1965) particularly, launched a worldwide spy movie craze that lasted about five years and resulted in probably close to 200 knock-offs. Although several very good spy movies were made around this time, notably The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1965) and The Quiller Memorandum (1966), the vast majority, including the two Derek …
Recommended NOTE: The images featured here were taken from promotional materials and do not reflect the quality of the Blu-ray under review. The Movie: Land Ho! is mumblecore for the post-middle-aged