DVD Talk Collector Series I suppose with On Approval (1944) I was expecting some sort of No l Coward-type, dryly witty drawing room comedy. Partly it is just that, but it’s also almost indescribably anarchic at times, like the screwiest of screwball comedies, but there are also purely cinematic sight gags harkening back to Buster Keaton in his prime. It reminds me a lot of several of writer …
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
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.