Highly Recommended Les Miserables The Musical Blu – ray Review Itall begins with the work of Victor Hugo. LesMisérables is based upon thetimeless literary work of one of France’s most beloved authors. He hada waywith words that few writers are capable of tapping into and with hiswords he spoke tomillions around the world upon the novel’s original publication in1862.
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Highly Recommended Definitely one of the lesser science fiction films of the 1950s, She Devil has been largely ignored since its initial release, when it shared a double-bill with the superior, unusual Kronos (1957), available on DVD since 2000 but not yet on Blu – ray . She Devil , also directed by Kurt Neumann and making its home video debut only now, is nevertheless highly enjoyable, falling …
DVD Talk Collector Series THE FILM Please Note: The images used here are taken from stills provided by The Criterion Collection and promotional materials, not the Blu – ray edition of the film under review. For those who know of the character’s origins, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s “Colonel Blimp” — played by Roger Livesey, with shape-shifting prowess, from a young, cocky man to an old …
Highly Recommended Tristana Blu – ray Review Tristana isone of filmmaker Luis Buñuel’s Read the entire review
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu – ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. French import Little White Lies works better as a travelogue than a drama, and I found myself checking Expedia for tickets to beautiful Cap Ferret in southwest France
Highly Recommended The Movie: When Don Cosarelli’s original Phantasm film proved to be a box office success, the young director was none too keen on delving back into the horror genre for fear or being pigeonholed. As such, there’s a pretty large gap between the first film and the second one, which wasn’t made until the head of Universal at the time, a horror fan, bank rolled it in 1988 …
Rent It The Movie: Futureworld , Richard T. Heffron’s 1976 sequel to Michael Crichton’s 1973 hit Westworld , was made for AIP and distributed though MGM
Rent It THE FILM: During the opening scenes of So Undercover , in which a borderline obnoxious Miley Cyrus scales rooftops during a private-eye gig, I assumed the worst.
DVD Talk Collector Series THE MOVIE: Please Note: The images used here are taken from a previous standard-definition DVD release, not the Blu – ray edition under review. I’ve always considered Badlands , the 1973 debut of writer/director/producer Terrence Malick, to be a little outside the rest of his oeuvre.