Highly Recommended The Film: The Duellists ‘ path to realization is an easy and logical one to follow: after thumbing through public-domain material to adapt and landing on a Joseph Conrad short story, Ridley Scott — then an experienced commercial director — took around a million dollars to emulate the tone and visual style of Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon, but with his own, distinctive …
Highly Recommended A pretty good B-Western featuring John Wayne, very early in his starring career, The New Frontier (1935) breaks no new ground but is well made for its budget level. Indeed, it’s fairly lavish by Republic Pictures’ standards, the studio then just getting started itself, the company having been founded earlier that year when Consolidated Film Laboratories president Herbert J …
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. There are certain trajectories that we expect rock ‘n’ roll stories to take. Of course, the most common are of young men dreaming big and going nowhere
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Highly Recommended Lightning Bug isn’t a horror flick, and yet it’s a film I’d bet many genre fans can relate to…those of us who grew up devouring Fangoria and GoreZone month in and month out, daydreaming about being the next Tom Savini or Rob Bottin. See, high school senior Green Graves (Bret Harrison) has a knack for creating gruesome monsters: doodling, sculpting, Read the entire review
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When the nominations for the Academy Awards are announced Thursday, untold millions of people already will have watched some of the leading flicks. But many of them likely didn’t view the motion pictures on a theater’s big screen, even though the movies haven’t been released on DVD or Blu-ray.
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. A few years after Wes Craven directed The Last House on the Left and The Hills Have Eyes but before his big breakout, A Nightmare on Elm Street , he made Deadly Blessing , which is more interesting as a precursor of what’s to come than an effective horror …
Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. A doctor getting a god complex is a well-worn genre trope, explored in movies as far apart as Stanley Kramer’s Not as a Stranger (1955) and the Alec Baldwin vehicle Malice (1995). With those movies, the story usually involves the docs overestimating their power to …
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