Rent It THE FILM: There is little to distinguish Bachelor Party from the horde of 1980s crude comedies except one thing, and it is a doozy: Tom Hanks. Fresh off the success of Splash , Hanks joined a cast of relatively unknowns in Director Neal Israel’s low-budget comedy that is surprisingly light on laughs. If anything, Bachelor Party is an interesting time capsule, and Hanks manages to inject …
Recommended As frantic and unpredictable as its central character, Richard Donner’s Conspiracy Theory (1997) takes viewers on a wild ride from start to finish. Our man under the microscope is Jerry Fletcher (Mel Gibson), a deeply troubled cab driver who perpetually peeks behind the curtain and believes in shady cover-ups, shadow government, and other suppressions of the truth. When he’s not …
Rent It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. The opening minutes of The Bridges of Madison County , in which two adult siblings react to the reading of their mother’s will, are terrible.
Recommended Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the DVD portion of Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron . The Movie: Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron is a movie about a headstrong horse who’ll never, ever be tamed – he’s “come into this world, wild and free,” galloping through the American West “wild and untamed” – and if anyone tries to reign him in, he’s “never gonna give in” (Bryan …
Highly Recommended The Movie: Written and directed by Robert Hiltzik, 1983’s Sleepaway Camp could have very easily been lost in the crowd of eighties slasher films had it not been for the film’s infamous shock ending, one that’s gone down in history, and rightly so. We won’t spoil it here but this is really one of those movies where you’re not going to see it coming and a picture which proves …
Recommended [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] “I live my life a quarter-mile at a time.” “That is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.” Turns out that Neal H. Moritz really liked raking in millions and … Read the entire review
Recommended The Movie: There is something about Memphis Belle that, for some reason when I stumble across it on television I find myself watching it. I do not know why, but in between the story or the casting it feels like something which captures a bit of the esprit de corps that soldiers (or in this case, airmen) share in a unique experience of risking one’s life for country. It does not do so …
Recommended The original Get Carter (1971), never to be confused with the 2000 Stallone remake , was the first film by British director Mike Hodges ( Flash Gordon )…but unlike that production, this Michael Caine vehicle has aged pretty well.
Rent It Detective Chen Zilong (Donnie Yen) has spent years undercover, slowly but surely making a name for himself as “Dragon” Chen, an enforcer well-known in the Chinese underworld. Although he is committed to his job, he yearns to return to the regular police force, where his mother (Hee Ching Paw) will no longer have to worry about his safety. When his boss, Captain Cheung (Ronald Cheng …
DVD Talk Collector Series The Terminal Blu-ray Review The Terminal is such a quiet, charming, andbeautifully realized movie and yet it opened in 2004 to lukewarmreviews and onlymodest domestic box-office. I suppose part of it is that audiences werenotsure if they wanted to see an over two hour long movie about a manstuck in anairport terminal