Recommended The Movie: One of a seemingly endless barrage of adaptations of the Marquis de Sade’s Justine , Chris Boger’s 1977 film, also known as Cruel Passion (which is the title that appears on the print used for this Blu-ray release), takes a mature and almost subdued approach to this well known tale of perversions and sexual excess. The film follows two sisters, Justine (Koo Stark) and …
DVD Talk Collector Series THE FILM: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from the DVD version included in the set, not the Blu-ray edition under review. A cinematic event years in the making, the 2010 restoration of Georges M li s’s technically pioneering, thematically prescient, eternally charming 1902 film A Trip to the Moon ( Le Voyage dans la Lune ) represents, for the …
Rent It THE FILM: Whitney Houston’s first acting role was a good fit: She played international music and film superstar Rachel Marron, a vulnerable diva whose life was threatened by a crazed fan, alongside Kevin Costner as her tireless protector in Director Mick Jackson’s The Bodyguard . Critics were not kind to the film, but it raked in over $400 million in worldwide receipts and its soundtrack …
DVD Talk Collector Series 2011 was, unquestionably, a fantastic year for fans of classic cinema.
Recommended The Film: Kathryn Stockett wrote her wildly-popular novel The Help as a way of fondly remembering the black women who helped raise her, and her close friend, director Tate Taylor, during and after the civil rights surge in the ’60s (and ’70s). Taylor obviously gets the fondness that Stockett crams into her book, because his film version follows a similar tone. While it’s still a …
Skip It THE MOVIE: Please Note: The screengrabs used here are taken from the standard-definition DVD included in the set, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Roman Polanski’s Carnage begins at what appears to be the end. Two pairs of parents, the Longstreets (Jodie Foster and John C. Reilly) and the Cowans (Kate Winslet and Christoph Waltz), have met at the former’s apartment because their two sons have had a fight
Recommended “It was Avatar who fought alongside my father against the first mutant attack. So, now we have our messiah back again
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from promotional materials provided by Sony Pictures Classics, not the Blu-ray edition under review. It happens to the best of them, but it’s not necessarily a bad thing. I’m talking about the “maturing” of some prominent, long-running filmmakers–John Waters, Pedro Almodovar, David Cronenberg–who started out as …
Recommended Would you believe the directors responsible for the likes of Nutty Professor II, Twilight – New Moon, See This Movie , and Little Fockers could have been responsible for delivering one of the best comedies the 90’s had to offer?