Rent It THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. Noted character actor David Morse ( Treme ) takes center-stage in the psychological police drama McCanick .
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Highly Recommended For many, Ralph Bakshi’s Coonskin is still a lost picture. Upon its release in 1975, picketers from the Congress of Racial Equality, led by Al Sharpton and Elaine Parker, pressured Paramount Pictures to cancel the film’s release, despite the fact that the majority of the group’s members had not seen it. After a screening at the Museum of Modern Art that was crashed by a …
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Oliver Stone appears to have taken personally much of the criticism lobbed at his big-budget 2004 dramatization of Alexander the Great’s life, which underperformed stateside and received some gleefully nasty critical reviews. I saw the film in theaters, and, while heavily flawed, Alexander showed sparks of …
Recommended “Longmire” is currently entering its third season on A&E.
The Sopranos was one of the most successful cable shows of the last decade, and continues to be a success on DVD almost seven years after its conclusion. For die-hard fans, the wait for high definition Tony Soprano has been …
Want to rewatch all six seasons of The Sopranos but are holding out until the series comes out in HD? The time for waiting is almost over, The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that the landmark HBO mob series will …
Skip It At a fancy dinner party, the villainous Japanese General Zhao (Waise Lee) confronts a Chinese photographer, jokingly asking if he’s about to assassinate the visiting prince. They both laugh, but at the end of it, Zhao has a gun pointed at the photographer’s stomach.
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Director Ralph Nelson’s Fate is the Hunter is based on Ernest K. Gann’s novel of the same name, but the author was so displeased with this film adaptation that he asked to be removed from its credits. Gann’s autobiography recounts his years piloting for American Airlines in the early days of commercial aviation and often reads like a fictional adventure thanks to …
Rent It C’mon, you know you had me at “Dutch zombie flick”. [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] The good news…? Aziz (Yahya Gaier) has finally landed a date with Tess (Nadia Poeschm…