More Than Honey (Blu-ray)
Recommended Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
January 1, 2014
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Recommended Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Recommended Reviewed by Glenn Erickson Under its proprietary branded line Scream Factory, the busy Shout! Factory Company continues to release neglected titles from the MGM library, which contains a large number of fantasy, horror and sci-fi pictures from Orion, A.I.P. and United Artists. This Double Feature Blu-ray / DVD combo disc pairs two UA pix with vaguely ‘prehistoric’ themes.
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. When I worked at an indie video store some time ago, a customer once told me, “The more famous people in a movie you’ve never heard of, the less chance it has to be good.” Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Jane Mansfield’s Car , actor Billy Bob …
Recommended Johann (Bobby Sommer) is a security guard in the Kunsthistorisches Art Museum in Vienna. Once a rock-and-roll tour manager, Johann has started to look for peace and quiet in his old age, and the museum provides everything he could want: an opportunity for serenity, an opportunity to observe the artwork, and an opportunity to observe the people who come in to do the same thing
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Nearly a decade after The Chronicles of Riddick underwhelmed audiences and critics, Director David Twohy and star Vin Diesel are back with a new off-world adventure for the popular antihero Riddick. This second sequel to Pitch Black returns to the moderate budget filmmaking that made that film successful, and …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. The father and son relationship at the heart of Lee Daniels’ The Butler nearly eclipses the story proper, which concerns African-American Cecil Gaines, a longtime White House butler who served during eight administrations over 34 years
DVD Talk Collector Series For once the tag lines were accurate: “Wild. Wonderful. Sinful.
Recommended Much like director Neil Blomkamp’s debut film, District 9 (2009), sophomore effort Elysium (2013) is anything but an exercise in subtlety. Both present a sci-fi facade that masks heavy undercurrents of timeless social and political commentary, including class warfare and the threat of oppressive authority. But unlike its bug-minded older brother, Elysium trades in apartheid for …
Recommended The Movie: Of all the filmed versions of Jack London’s novel The Call of the Wild , the rousing, slick 1935 version starring Clark Gable and Loretta Young may be considered the most memorable. That’s not due to anything that transpires in the film, however – nope, it’s because Clark and Loretta’s shacked up offscreen (resulting in a child whom Loretta claimed was adopted)