Recommended In 2013, Olive Films released John Ford's The Quiet Man on Blu-ray for its 50th Anniversary, complete with a beautiful new restoration (DVDTalk has a review of that disc here ). Although the presentation was impeccable and the set came with a lengthy booklet, the one area where it came up a bit short was in the supplement department, offering only a previously released 25-minute …
Recommended THE FILM: Ah, My Girl . A film I remember really liking when I was 11. Now that I am pushing 30, some of its charms have worn off, though it remains a decent coming-of-age story
Rent It Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. The Movie: The artist's urge to create, despite overwhelming resistance from the outside world, gets a sympathetic if plodding treatment in the biopic Vincent & Theo .
Highly Recommended Stormy Weather Blu-ray Review Stormy Weather is a song-and-dance musicalfeaturinga cast that is entirely made up of famous African American performers.It is oneof the few classic Hollywood films to feature an entirely AfricanAmerican castand a good production budget by a major studio (one of the otherrarities thatexisted around the time-period being Cabin in the Sky …
Rent It The Movie: Directed by Mick Jackson from a script by James Hicks, 1990's Chattahoochee is based on the true story' of Emmett Foley, played in the film by Gary Oldman.
Highly Recommended “I just want to meet a guy I like as much as you. Is that too much to ask?” [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] Paige (Gillian Jacobs) and Sasha Read the entire review
Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less The strange, tragic relationship between wrestling and John du Pont Reviewer's Bias* Loves: Mark Ruffalo, Bennett Miller Likes: Channing Tatum, Steve Carell, wrestling (not the pro kind) Dislikes: Many biopics Hates: When money protects the guilty The Movie Despite getting something of a late start on his directing career, Bennett Miller has been in no rush …
Rent It The Movie: Are there many directors like Rob Reiner in film history who produced a string of classics during the first half of his career, only to spend the second half pumping out one disaster after the other?
DVD Talk Collector Series The Connection (1961) is a historically significant if very stagey and virtually unreleased feature directed and edited by independent experimental filmmaker Shirley Clarke (1919-1997). An adaptation of Jack Gelber's 1959 Obie-winning play, the entire story takes place in a grungy New York loft – there are no exteriors and no other sets – where junkies, including jazz …
Highly Recommended The Movie: 1975's Love and Death is probably the oddest film of Woody Allen's “early funny ones,” but, pound for pound, it is also probably the funniest. Set in Russia during the Napoleonic Wars, Love and Death features a smorgasbord of smarty-pants riffs on philosophy, literature, and cinema, Marxian (as in Groucho) double-talk, and slapstick setpieces that rival the work of …