Given his predilection for visuals and theatrics, it’s almost shocking that shock rocker Rob Zombie has never released a concert DVD before. But “The…
Rent It The Movie: Growing up in a household where my father enjoyed more than several films and miniseries of the Civil War era, I feel somewhat vaccinated to films of the period and even will occasionally watch Gods and Generals or Gettysburg when they appear on television. In addition, for whatever reason when I heard the person responsible for those movies did a made for television third …
Rent It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. The opening minutes of The Bridges of Madison County , in which two adult siblings react to the reading of their mother’s will, are terrible.
Recommended [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] “I live my life a quarter-mile at a time.” “That is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.” Turns out that Neal H. Moritz really liked raking in millions and … Read the entire review
Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less Because Blu-ray was made for nerds Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: ’80s films, Revenge of the Nerds Likes: College movies, T&A comedies Dislikes: Jocks Hates: That college wasn’t like it was in the movies The Movie When I was a kid, I watched a lot of HBO and frequented the long-goneVideo Plus in Copiague, NY, becoming a big fan of the T&A sex comedies of the ’80s …
Recommended Back in the summer of 1980, there was a lot of buzz about three new summer comedies. The Blues Brothers was an orgy of great music and wildly over-the-top stunts, yet for some reason it seem to play only inadequate second-rate theaters (I first saw it in a shoebox-sized mall cinema)
When Billy Joel rocked Russia in in 1987, he “gave it all away,” he says in an exclusive clip from his forthcoming DVD documenting the tour, “A…
Rent It Detective Chen Zilong (Donnie Yen) has spent years undercover, slowly but surely making a name for himself as “Dragon” Chen, an enforcer well-known in the Chinese underworld. Although he is committed to his job, he yearns to return to the regular police force, where his mother (Hee Ching Paw) will no longer have to worry about his safety. When his boss, Captain Cheung (Ronald Cheng …
Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less Love in a digital era Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Spike Jonze, quirky, creative movies, Chris Pratt Likes: Scarlett Johansson, subtle sci-fi Dislikes: Sadness, romance films Hates: Loneliness The Movie The marketing materials for Her no not label it as “a Spike Jonze film” or “a movie by Spike Jonze” or even “a Spike Jonze joint.” It was sold as “a Spike Jonze …
DVD Talk Collector Series The Terminal Blu-ray Review The Terminal is such a quiet, charming, andbeautifully realized movie and yet it opened in 2004 to lukewarmreviews and onlymodest domestic box-office. I suppose part of it is that audiences werenotsure if they wanted to see an over two hour long movie about a manstuck in anairport terminal