Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the standard-definition DVD included in the retail package, not the Blu-ray edition under review. It's wonderful how a good movie can sometimes turn a night around. I have to remind myself of that sometimes.
Recommended Stagefright: Michelle Soavi's Stagefright , perennial also-ran of Italian horror, makes its Blu-ray debut, courtesy of the fine folks at Blue Underground, those who won't rest until they've gotten us all up to date on everything exploitation. Soavi's whodunit slasher opus trades heavily on atmosphere to deliver some gory goods and lots of stylish tension.
Skip It The Movie: Did you ever play this game with your friends as a child? You and your buddies sit around in a circle, each of you write a paragraph of a short story, fold it, then another kid writes the next paragraph without seeing what comes before it.
Skip It The Movie: Very Good Girls is a feature-length soap opera full of characters devoid of any depth or personality, occupying a meandering, unfocused screenplay without anything of value to say.
James Cutting, a psychologist at Cornell University has been studying the evolution of cinema over the past century.
DVD Talk Collector Series Man Hunt (1941) is a terrific, tense thriller directed by Fritz Lang and released about six months prior to America's entry into the Second World War. That made it one of a handful of anti-Nazi Hollywood movies ( Confessions of a Nazi Spy , Foreign Correspondent , and A Yank in the R.A.F.
Recommended Gangster Nick (Simon Oakland), referring to Toby's (Elvis Presley) na vet : “Is he kidding?” Gangster Carmine (Jack Kruschen), exasperated : “I just don't know anymore.” A lesser Elvis movie that breaks away somewhat from the usual formula, Follow That Dream (1962) unwisely casts The King as a painfully stupid country bumpkin along the lines of Gomer Pyle.
Inside the buzz as the fall movie season kicks off north of the border
Recommended Most people fear change. Whether clouded by nostalgia or the comfort of daily routines, any step in a new direction is bound to challenge those who aren't ready for it…and while the reboot of a beloved movie and TV franchise hopefully won't affect you as much as a career switch or cross-country move, some people get awfully defensive about their escapist entertainment.
Recommended The Movie: A cable car leaves a dark station. The static camera from inside the car shows an old man with a young boy sitting side-by-side, looking at the beautiful green scenery as the car climbs to its location. During the entire 10-minute ride, the old man and the boy don't speak to each other as we hear the sounds of the cable car ride reverberate around us as if we're a part of …