Highly Recommended The Movie: Directed by the late, great special effects titan Stan Winston (his first feature as a director) based on the poem by Ed Justin, 1988's Pumpkinhead is the tragic tale of a man named Ed Harley (Lance Henriksen) who owns and operates a local grocery store in the deep south.
Highly Recommended Cardcaptor Sakura Complete Series Premium Edition Blu-ray Cardcaptor Sakura is one of the most successful shojo anime(and manga) series ever created. Based upon the popular serializedmangacreated by the popular all-girl manga group Clamp, CardcaptorSakura became a huge success that spawned the creationof this equally beloved series, two feature films connected to theseries …
Skip It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore reunite for their third project together, Blended , an embarrassingly inept romantic comedy that might have ranked at the bottom of Sandler's resume but for that Jack and Jill debacle
Recommended The Movie: Musical biopics are the worst. They tend to exhibit the most infuriating aspects of regular biopics — the many shortcuts screenwriters take to squeeze a human life into three acts and 120 pages — plus they have an added requirement: they gotta play the hits.
Highly Recommended Please Note: The screen shots used here are taken from the DVD portion of Chaplin's Mutual Comedies. The Movies: Like The Beatles in 1964 or Michael Jackson in 1983, Chaplin's Mutual Comedies 1916-17 gives you Charlie Chaplin, Pop Culture Icon at the peak of his popularity.
Rent It The Movie: At only 31 years of age, director Drake Doremus already has four features under his belt. He has proven himself to be a prolific young American filmmaker. His 2011 effort Like Crazy , unseen by me, made a minor splash as a romance that supposedly didn't condescend to its youth demographic and presented young characters who were smarter and more layered than the usual Nicholas …
Recommended Following years of steady but dead-end employment as a supporting player, actor Charles Bronson abandoned Hollywood for the European continent where, very quickly, he established himself there and in Asia as a major star. It was during Bronson's “European period” that he made some of his best films: Farewell, Friend , Once Upon a Time in the West (both 1968), Rider on the Rain …
Recommended The Movie: As far as mainstream acceptance of LGBT people are concerned, it looks like TV has done a better job lately than feature film did. Shows like Will & Grace and Glee has done wonders in terms of promoting tolerance while still providing simple and corny entertainment. On the other hand, feature films that bring LGBT issues and characters to the forefront tend to get stuck …
Rent It The Movie: The pleasant, straightforward Burt's Buzz documents a few weeks in the life of Burt Shavitz, otherwise known as the scraggly-bearded man pictured on those Burt's Bees skin care products stocked in drug stores everywhere. Like Kentucky Fried Chicken's Colonel Sanders, it can be disarming to think that there's a real person behind the merchandise. Just as one couldn't picture …
Highly Recommended Where's the love for Stanley Kramer? Dismissed for half a century as a minimally talented producer-director of “message pictures,” Kramer is long overdue for a major reappraisal. As a producer he made some of the finest films of the late 1940s through the mid- 50s: Champion , Home of the Brave (both 1949), The Men (1950), High Noon (1952), The Wild One (1953), The Caine Mutiny …