Nude Nuns with Big Guns (Blu-ray)
Skip It Just to get this out of the way, I guess, I am totally the target demographic for a trashy exploitation flick like Nude Nuns with Big Guns .
January 30, 2012
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Skip It Just to get this out of the way, I guess, I am totally the target demographic for a trashy exploitation flick like Nude Nuns with Big Guns .
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The screengrabs used here are from the standard-definition DVD released in 2004, not from the Blu-Ray.
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The images used here are promotional stills not taken directly from the Blu-Ray. Luis Bu uel’s 1967 adaptation of the Joseph Kessel novel Belle de Jour may be tame by today’s standards in terms of what we actually see on screen, but the icy tale of sexual peccadilloes and alternative pleasures still has a psychological resonance, bolstered by the …
Rent It THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are from promotional materials and Aaron Beierle’s review of the DVD edition and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review.
Recommended And the award for “Most Overrated Film of 2011” goes to…well, something else, but Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive might be somewhere down the list. To be fair, this suspenseful character study has plenty of highlights: a great soundtrack, solid performances and a thick atmosphere, for starters. Hell, the opening sequence alone is almost worth the price of admission.
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are promotional stills and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. What a fitting, masterful close to an illustrious, impassioned, and cheeky career is the late Ra l Ruiz’s last film, Mysteries of Lisbon ! The expatriate Chilean filmmaker, who left his homeland after the fascist Pinochet coup in 1973 and worked in Europe …
Recommended THE MOVIE: Hmmm, I wonder what could have prompted HBO Home Video to upgrade their 1995 TV movie The Tuskegee Airmen for a Blu-ray release? Looking at their slate for January, we see that it’s being accompanied by the new performance film Thurgood (starring Airmen ‘s Laurence Fishburne) and their acclaimed 1991 film The Josephine Baker Story ; some kind of pre-Black History Month …
DVD Talk Collector Series THE MOVIE: Please Note: The images used here are promotional stills and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. No one likes jury duty.
Highly Recommended THE CONCERT: I have to admit right off the bat that, while I count Mahler among my favorite composers, I am at best a classical-music dilettante whose first exposure to and interest in his music came from hearing alluring snatches of it in movies, from Husbands and Wives to In a Year with 13 Moons to Velvet Goldmine ; the performance of his second symphony that is under review …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from the 1999 DVD release and reflect neither the corrected aspect ratio nor the improved image quality of the Blu-ray edition under review. All the excitement leading up to the 1998 release of Velvet Goldmine , Todd Haynes’s ( I’m Not There ) epic meditation on the “glam rock” pop-music movement of the early 1970s …