Recommended The Movie: The Guest is a flat-footed genre exercise that's as straight and stripped as they come, but it's brimming with enough style, tension, mood, and technical creativity to successfully cover for its stunning lack of originality.
Recommended The Movie: Following the success of their first driving and eating tour film in The Trip , Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon and director Michael Winterbottom all returned for an expected second trip of cars and food, with Italy being the backstop.
Rent It Colin (Idris Elba) has spent the last five years in prison. He was convicted on a manslaughter charge, but Colin is more dangerous than it seems; although the prosecutor couldn't make a case, he is responsible for the death of five other women. He is granted a parole hearing, having been only been convicted of the lesser crime, but one of the parole board is wise to his act, holding the …
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Highly Recommended Adapted from the eponymous 1975 play by Leah Napolin and Isaac Bashevis Singer—and in turn, Singer's earlier short story “Yentl the Yeshiva Boy” —Barbra Streisand's Yentl (1983) is an uncompromising personal project that's held up quite nicely during the last three decades. Our story follows Yentl Mendel (Streisand) and her father (Nehemiah Persoff) in early 20th century …
Rent It In 10 Words or Less Kevin Smith tries something different Reviewer's Bias* Loves: Kevin Smith, weird movies, podcasts, Canada Likes: Kevin Smith films of late, Michael Parks, Justin Long Dislikes: Rubber monster movies Hates: Nepotism, body horror films The Movie Ask anyone who's known me since my college days who my favorite director is, and the likely answer will be Kevin Smith. You …
DVD Talk Collector Series Poirot Complete Blu-ray Review Agatha Christie's Poirot: Complete Cases Collection is easilythe most ultimate set for fans of the long-running mystery seriesPoirot. Thecollection features all 70 episodes (which represents all of thematerial thatwas written by Christie featuring the character) and in the originalbroadcastorder. The series began airing as a British ITV …
Skip It The Movie: Written and directed by John Herzfeld and funded through a Kickstarter crowdsourcing campaign, revolves around the effects of a self-help book written by a mysterious writer named Teddy (Tom Berenger). As the book becomes increasingly popular, its effects can be seen in the lives of a variety of characters, all of whom live in Los Angeles
Rent It The Movie: In River's Edge , a clique of disaffected kids in small town '80s California don't know how to react when one of their peers is coldly murdered by another in their group. As the gravity of the situation dawns on them, their reactions range from a total freakout to wondering why the death of a TV character made them cry – where an actual death involving their close friend …
Recommended The Movie: Occasionally one has to wonder about a film with a powerful true story and a famous face associated with it. Such is the case of The Good Lie , produced by Ron Howard and Brian Glazer, and featuring an Oscar winner in its midst. It tells the story of Mamere (Arnold Oceng), Jeremiah (Ger Duany), Paul (Emmanuel Jal) and Abital (Kuoth Wiel)