Recommended Attack on Titan – Set 1 Blu-ray Review There’s a certain little series known as Attackon Titan .You may have heard of it. It’s the most discussed anime seriescurrently aroundwith a huge audience and a great deal of fervor around the entireglobe.Funimation has recently acquired this series: the biggest anime hit oftheyear. Astonishing viewers worldwide, Attack on Titan is …
Recommended The Grand Budapest Hotel Blu-ray Review The Grand Budapest Hotel is a comedy-dramafromwriter/director Wes Anderson ( Rushmore , The Life AquaticWith SteveZissou ). It is Anderson’s 8th feature film and is a British/Germanco-production. The story takes place within and around the hotel andoccurswithin a fictional place known as the Republic of Zubrowka (itself ametaphorical state …
Recommended Note: Before we get started, I’d like to say, I don’t know if I’m using appropriate terms for describing the Special Olympians in this film, but I tried to avoid the obviously insulting ones (except for the Tropic Thunder reference in the opening section and any quotes from the film.) I’m not defending any mistakes I make. I’m just trying to save you an email by letting you know I’m …
Highly Recommended The Movie: Released in 1955, The Man from Laramie is a masterful conclusion to a run of five “psychological” Westerns starring James Stewart and directed by Anthony Mann, which began with 1950’s similarly excellent Winchester ’73 .
Recommended Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries – Season 2 – Blu-ray Review It’s time for a little bit of an imported mysteryphenomenon: Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries is a popular andacclaimedtelevision production produced in Australia that has literally “madewaves” outside of its home country by being imported to over 120differentstations and distributors around the globe. It’s become a huge …
Recommended Oh, the tortured life of Dragon Ball Z on home video.
In the quarter-century since the movie was released, superhero movies have turned into a genre of their own. Some of have been more coherent, some have been slicker, some even more enjoyable
Rent It Capital ( Le Capital , 2012) is corporate thriller about the newly-crowned head of a leading French bank trying to hold onto his position amidst internal power struggles and a hostile takeover plot by an American hedge fund manager. Despite good intentions, it’s an almost complete misfire from director Costa-Gavras ( Z , Stage of Siege ). The film, based on a novel by St phane Osmont …
Amazon’s war on content providers has apparently opened up another front. While the online behemoth is still embroiled in a dispute with Hachette that has led to the removal of the ability to pre-order that publisher’s titles on the site, it now seems upcoming DVD and Blu-ray releases from Warner Home Video have also been removed from pre-order.
Highly Recommended With north of 150 movies under his belt, spanning everything from spy thrillers to nunsploitation to lesbian vampires, how could Jess Franco not direct a slasher flick? Bloody Moon isn’t subtle about it either. I mean, this 1981 slasher opens with a mute killer putting on a cheap, plastic mask — complete with P.O.V