Highly Recommended With north of 150 movies under his belt, spanning everything from spy thrillers to nunsploitation to lesbian vampires, how could Jess Franco not direct a slasher flick? Bloody Moon isn’t subtle about it either. I mean, this 1981 slasher opens with a mute killer putting on a cheap, plastic mask — complete with P.O.V
Rent It THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. Noted character actor David Morse ( Treme ) takes center-stage in the psychological police drama McCanick .
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Rent It There’s just something about murderous little moppets. I don’t know why, but whenever I stumble across a movie with kids savagely slaughtering the adults around them, I have to watch: The Children (both the 1980 and 2008 movies) The Bad Seed , Village of the Damned , Beware! Children at Play , Children of the Corn , The Brood , Mutant , and the list goes on and on and on.
Highly Recommended For many, Ralph Bakshi’s Coonskin is still a lost picture. Upon its release in 1975, picketers from the Congress of Racial Equality, led by Al Sharpton and Elaine Parker, pressured Paramount Pictures to cancel the film’s release, despite the fact that the majority of the group’s members had not seen it. After a screening at the Museum of Modern Art that was crashed by a …
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Perhaps director Jaume Collet-Serra and Liam Neeson will become the next De Niro and Scorsese or Hitchcock and Grant. They are not off to a terrible start: Unknown is a serviceable if imperfect thriller, and the pair again evokes the Master of Suspense with Non-Stop , a claustrophobic thriller set aboard a …
Recommended The Series: The fourth season of Comedy Central’s series Workaholics continues to follow the exploits of Blake Henderson (Blake Anderson), Adam DeMamp (Adam DeVine) and Anders Homvik (Anders Holm), a trio of roommates who work together in a call center for the TelAmeriCorp corporation.
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Director Ralph Nelson’s Fate is the Hunter is based on Ernest K. Gann’s novel of the same name, but the author was so displeased with this film adaptation that he asked to be removed from its credits. Gann’s autobiography recounts his years piloting for American Airlines in the early days of commercial aviation and often reads like a fictional adventure thanks to …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. The third film from prolific director John Milius ( Red Dawn , Conan the Barbarian ) is an exciting Morocco-set adventure in which Sean Connery’s Mulai Ahmed er Raisuli kidnaps an American expat (Candice Bergen) and her two young children (Simon Harrison and Polly Gottesman). Raisuli leads a band of …
Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. There are moments of pure craziness in Sam Peckinpah’s 1974 bloodbath Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia .