Recommended Does a decent ending give an otherwise dull season of TV a free pass? Not exactly, but it helps a little. When The Office (2005-2013) finally ended after years of increasingly diminishing returns, many of those who gave up along the way came back to see how it would all turn out
Rent It Oh, Movie! You had me [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] at ” Frankenstein’s Army “.
DVD Talk Collector Series Submarine movies come in all shapes and sizes, from the highs of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) and The Enemy Below (1957, really half a submarine movie) to the depths of Hellcats of the Navy (1957, not nearly as bad as its reputation) and the absurdities of Atomic Submarine (1960). But Ren Cl ment’s The Damned (1947) is the most authentic submarine movie I’ve ever …
Highly Recommended It seems a bit odd reviewing a Blu-ray disc that sold out even before this reviewer received his own copy in the mail, but hopefully that’s an indicator of Columbia/Sony need to reissue movies like this on its own, or at least allow current distributor Twilight Time another print run. It’s also a sure sign that Body Double (1984), a Brian De Palma movie raked over the coals by …
Highly Recommended It seems a bit odd reviewing a Blu-ray disc that sold out even before this reviewer received his own copy in the mail, but hopefully that’s an indicator of Columbia/Sony need to reissue movies like this on its own, or at least allow current distributor Twilight Time another print run. It’s also a sure sign that Body Double (1984), a Brian De Palma movie raked over the coals by …
DVD Talk Collector Series One of the real finds on Blu-ray this year is The Disappearance (1977), a heretofore almost impossible to see Canadian-British co-production starring Donald Sutherland as an assassin-for-hire whose effectiveness is compromised when his wife inexplicably disappears. Despite handsome production values and a top-flight cast of Canadian and British actors, actor-turned …
Recommended An above-average Danny Kaye comedy, Knock on Wood (1954) was written, produced, and directed by the team of Norman Panama and Melvin Frank, who were also responsible for Kaye’s best film, The Court Jester (1956) and his biggest hit, White Christmas (1954).
Skip It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution.
DVD Talk Collector Series THE SERIES: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. I didn’t have the time to stay current with The Walking Dead during its third season while I studied for the bar exam. It was with great anticipation that I unwrapped last week the package containing The Walking Dead: The Complete Third Season Blu-ray set, as I’d been pining to catch up with …
Skip It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. If you’re going to shoot a “found footage” movie in 2013, you better have a damn good reason for doing so. I’m not against this cinematic trick sparked by The Blair Witch Project in 1999, but I am against lazy, nauseating filmmaking.