Highly Recommended The Movie: Roman Polanski’s 1979 adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles is an intimate epic, a story peppered with melodramatic twists of fate but presented on a distinctly human scale. The film is also a wonderful showcase for Nastassja Kinski as Tess.
Skip It THE FILM: Spike Lee goes director-for-hire in Oldboy , a handsomely shot, nicely acted but ultimately perfunctory remake of Park Chan-wook’s 2003 Korean gut-punch. Josh Brolin is the man imprisoned in a room for twenty years before being released to track down his tormentor
DVD Talk Collector Series Please Note: The screen shots used here are taken from the DVD portion of Foreign Correspondent. The Movie: “To those intrepid ones who went across the seas to be the eyes and ears of America . . .
Recommended The Augustine Interfaith Order of Hellbound Saints is a select group of ordained ministers who exist to control the demons from hell that threaten our world. The premise is a bit odd but rather simple- their main job is performing exorcisms, but spend their down-time violating the Seven Deadly Sins in order to be “damnation-ready,” so that if they aren’t able to send demons back to …
Highly Recommended The Movies: Kino bundles together four of their previously released special edition Blu-ray releases of Jean Rollin’s cinematic oddities, reissuing them as a boxed set under the banner The Cinema Of Jean Rollin: The Vampire Collection . The discs in this set are identical to the previously released individual film releases that came out a couple of years ago, but this is still …
Recommended Although the calendar might have already flipped to the 1970s, culture was still pretty much still in the spirit of the late 60s before giving way to the excesses of corporate rock and disco that were to come later in the decade. On the heels of the legendary 1969 Woodstock music festival, promoter Ken Walker had an idea for a festival further north in Canada. He chartered a train …
Recommended The Movie: Clint Eastwood’s 2004 film, Million Dollar Baby , took home Oscar’s that year for Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Director and was nominated for three other categories.
Recommended Franck Adrien (Albert Dupontel) is just a few weeks away from the end of his prison sentence for bank robbery. Not only is he looking forward to returning home to his beautiful wife, Anna (Caterina Murino) and lovely daughter, Amelie (Jaia Caltagirone), but he’s also got the haul from the robbery stashed away, which the police are still interested in finding. His cellmate, Jean-Louis …
DVD Talk Collector Series Treme – Complete Series Blu-ray Review Click onan image to view the Blu-rayscreenshot with 1080p resolution Treme is the most under-rated television series that I have everseen.
Highly Recommended The House of Mouse has a long and lucrative history of whitewashing source material for family consumption…but hey, it’s resulted in a lot of top-notch animated classics.