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: Claudette Colbert grins and simpers throughout Guest Wife , a bubbly 1945 comedy in which she plays a woman who gets into a heap of trouble pretending to be her husband’s best friend’s wife (got that?).
Recommended As genre fans, we’ve had to endure our own tale of horror throughout the years. We were teased with many of our beloved franchises on Blu-ray, but like any dope smoking teenager that gets laid on film, they inevitably got the axe. Freddy, Jason and Chucky all met an untimely end, and how
DVD Talk Collector Series Big Parade TheMovie: King Vidor’s The Big Parade is one of the successful and influential movies from the silent era andit’s astounding that it took over a decade and a half to release thefilm on DVD. Good things come to those who wait as WarnerBrothers has finally rectified that situation with a pristine lookingBlu-ray (also available on DVD) that has a couple of …
Highly Recommended Friends have been raving to me about Downton Abbey (2010-present), the British (and partly American-financed) television drama contrasting the lives upper- and servant-class residents of a large manor house in post-Edwardian England. I had been meaning to catch up with it eventually and gradually but, perfect timing, along comes PBS’s release of Downton Abbey: Seasons 1, 2 & 3 …
DVD Talk Collector Series Rossellini – Bergman – Criterion Set Click onan image to view the Blu-rayscreenshot with 1080p resolution Thereare moments in… Read the entire review
“Released!,” a six-disc DVD and 2-disc CD set of highlights from the Amnesty International benefit concerts from 1986 through 1998, will be released…
Recommended THE FILM: While Curse of Chucky shares a director – Don Mancini – with Seed of Chucky , the previous sequel in the Child’s Play series, it mostly drops the black humor of that film in favor of returning to the franchise’s horror roots. This direct-to-video sequel is actually much better than expected, and it moves the story forward in an interesting way. Chucky (voiced by Brad Dourif …
Rent It The good [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] news…? Blue Underground is back! The bad news…? Um, Snuff
Recommended The Movie: Directed by Sebasti n Cordero, 2013’s Europa Report isn’t going to appeal to everyone. It’s a slow movie and much like 2001: A Space Odyssey it sometimes get self-indulgent not because it betters the story to do so, but because it can. Add to that the fact that the movie is basically a found footage’ style narrative, something that seems to turn a lot of viewers off simply …
Recommended Well, we’ve got the third “Monster High” release within a year, and the first one to be given the honor of a Blu-Ray release. For the uninitiated, “Monster High” is a line of toys, animated specials and other merchandise for kids (whom I earlier jokingly referred to as “Goth girls-in-training”).