Recommended The Film : The story of Thor Heyerdahl’s 5,000-mile expedition across the open seas on a wooden raft has already been visualized by a trustworthy source: himself, in his Oscar-nominated documentary from the late-’40s.
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. You gotta love a good bummer, and there’s no bummer quite as good the 1941 tearjerker Penny Serenade
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. I am not sure what is more disturbing: James Cagney’s performance as the sociopathic gangster Ralph Cotter in the 1950 film Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye or the fact that Phil Spector was allegedly watching the movie in his limo the night he shot …
Rent It Jean-Francois Laguionie’s The Painting (2011) is an animated oddity. Essentially, this fable aims to remind its audience that appearance shouldn’t matter, especially since we have no choice of lives before we’re created
Rent It The Movie: The latest film from the animated wing of 20th Century Fox is Epic , following in the wings of similarly one word-titled animated films full of adventure, wonder and bravado. But just how well this film measures to the recent crop of similar ones in the genre remained to be seen for me until I finally experienced the slightly hyperbolic Epic on Blu-ray. So time to crack open …
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Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Midway through Pain & Gain , as the Rock is grilling some human hands and feet over a charcoal grill, a title card appears informing the audience that “This is still a true story.” This mid-’90s set slice of Bayhem is based on true events, chronicled in several Miami New Times articles and a book by …
DVD Talk Collector Series The Blu-ray of the fifth and final season of The Dick Van Dyke Show (1965-66) brings to a close individual season sets previously available only as part of a complete series Blu-ray boxed set, released late last fall.
Recommended The Movie: For a while there in the late ’70s and very early ’80s, American pop culture was in the grips of deja vu: the cinemas offered Grease and The Buddy Holly Story , Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley had us in stitches, and seemingly every other song on the radio was a smoothed-out Golden Oldie (thanks for nothing, Linda Ronstadt). Somehow lost in this poodle-skirted shuffle was …
Rent It THE FILM Please Note: The images used here are photos provided by Sony Pictures Classics and do not directly reflect the picture quality of the Blu-ray edition under review. Without a doubt, writer/director Ramin Bahrani ( Chop Shop , Goodbye Solo ) has a head on his shoulders and a thoughtful engagement with the impact of our social, political, cultural, and economic climate and its …