DVD Talk Collector Series The Movie: Years of parody and homage and outright emulation have done little to dim the magnificence of Fran ois Truffaut’s third feature film, Jules and Jim .
Recommended Historical war films aren’t usually my cup of tea, unless they cover events that haven’t been done to death already. Cy Endfield’s Zulu (1964) fits the bill by dropping us smack in the beginning of the Anglo-Zulu War circa January 1879, as we see a conflict between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom develops in south-eastern Africa. In particular, Zulu recounts the Battle of …
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. A film about Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone escaping a maximum-security prison together is either going to be something you want to see or it isn’t. Escape Plan slid under the radar last fall and seemed like the icing on a particularly bad year for the indestructible duo following their …
Highly Recommended The Film: There’s a strong urge to work in the words “exhilarating” and “adrenaline” at the very beginning of a review about Ron Howard’s Rush , mostly because they’re descriptors typically out of place for the director’s style … and, boy, the fact that they so aptly fit this one needs to be hammered home. Granted, one might assume that it’d be difficult to create a film …
Highly Recommended The Movie: Even though About Time ‘s key conceit is that lanky ginger Tim (Domhnall Gleeson, Brendan’s boy) has inherited from his father (the perpetually awesome Bill Nighy) the ability to travel back in time to previously lived moments in his life and change them as he sees fit, writer-director Richard Curtis ( Love Actually , Notting Hill ) is not all that interested in …
Rent It The Movie: Directed by Liliana Cavani in 1970, I Cannibali (or Year Of The Cannibals if you prefer) is set in the city of Milan where the government has cracked down on radicals and left their bodies littering the streets as a warning sign of sorts. The bodies come from all spectrums of life, male and female, young and old alike but it seems that the young outnumber the old by quite a …
Recommended Khumba , produced in South Africa, didn’t get a theatrical release here in the States but it’s been released on disc from Millennium Entertainment. The title character (voiced by Jake T
Highly Recommended Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. The TV Series: Of all the filmed versions of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice , the 1995 BBC-A&E television production seems to be the one that people (especially women) keep returning to again and again. Why is that?
DVD Talk Collector Series Some movies get a bum rap. Such is the case of Raise the Titanic (1980), a critical flop and, more importantly, a colossal commercial failure with $7 million in U.S. and Canadian earnings against a $40 million negative cost
Highly Recommended THE SERIES: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Subtle it is not, but Kevin Williamson’s The Following is crackling entertainment buoyed by strong performances from Kevin Bacon, as an FBI agent with emotional baggage, and James Purefoy, as a cunning serial killer and cult leader on the run.