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. Serge Bourguignon's Sundays and Cyb le , a 1962 drama that went on to win the Best Foreign Language Oscar the following year, is a unique movie. The only other film it brings to mind is Ren Cl ment's Forbidden Games , the tale of two young …
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.
Recommended THE FILM: Perhaps Sylvester Stallone should recruit Christopher Walken if he makes another Expendables film. Fresh off an Academy Award win for The Deer Hunter , Walken played a mercenary for John Irvin in The Dogs of War . This meat-and-potatoes thriller sees Walken battling a ruthless African dictator and shady international business tycoons while his personal life crumbles
Recommended The Movie: Previously released on DVD by Media Blasters/Shriek Show, Rino Di Silvestro's notorious Werewolf Woman (alternately known in domestically as The Legend Of The Wolf Woman ) lives again, now on Blu-ray courtesy of Raro Video. Those expecting something akin to a Lon Chaney or even a Paul Naschy style werewolf movie will no doubt walk away from this one scratching their heads …
Recommended The Movie: The third and final part of Sion Sono's so-called Hate Trilogy (preceded by the film's Love Exposure and then Cold Fish , both of which are definitely recommended for fans of this director's outsider filmography), 2011's Guilty of Romance debuts on Blu-ray in North America for the first time thanks to Olive Films.
Recommended The Movie: Set in a Japan recently ravaged by a powerful Tsunami, Sion Sono's 2011 picture Himizu takes place in a country that has essentially lost a war, not with another country, but with mother nature. Large portions of the populace have lost their homes and in tents and while what's left of the army and police forces do what they can to maintain law and order, as it stands the …
Recommended Note : Although screencaps should only be considered an idea of what the disc looks like, click any capture in this review to expand the image to a full size .png. Elizabeth Lipp (Melina Mercouri) — not her real name — is the kind of woman who gets what she wants. Right now, she's got her eye on a little something: the four most precious emeralds in the world, encrusted onto a …
DVD Talk Collector Series The Movie: During a vintage interview included on this essential Blu-Ray release of La Dolce Vita from Criterion, director Federico Fellini confesses that he hates talking about his own work in detail, because he thinks the filmmaker should be the last person to talk about their creation. Once the work is out there, he believes that it belongs to the audience from that …
Recommended Based on the 1982 French graphic novel Transperceneige , director Bong Joon-ho's Snowpiercer (2013) serves up a thinly-veiled slice of post-apocalyptic social commentary. After a failed attempt to combat global warming causes a new Ice Age, humanity's survivors are placed inside a massive train segmented by social classes
Rent It Content: If movies have taught us anything, it's that you don't take a bag of money you happen to come across, especially when the amount is in the hundreds of thousands, because come on… it HAS to belong to corrupt people that are willing to do anything to get it back, only bad things come of it. Greed is the moral of Good People , an ultimately disappointing thriller film based off …