DVD Talk Collector Series The Movie: Years of parody and homage and outright emulation have done little to dim the magnificence of Fran ois Truffaut’s third feature film, Jules and Jim .
Recommended When an Egyptian army, led by British troops, falls for a trap in the Sudanese desert and is brutally murdered, it presents a major problem for British Prime Minister William Gladstone (Ralph Richardson). The Sudan is a protectorate of the UK, and they are obligated to help the people there, especially considering the battle helped arm the attackers, a group of Muslim zealots led by …
Recommended Historical war films aren’t usually my cup of tea, unless they cover events that haven’t been done to death already. Cy Endfield’s Zulu (1964) fits the bill by dropping us smack in the beginning of the Anglo-Zulu War circa January 1879, as we see a conflict between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom develops in south-eastern Africa. In particular, Zulu recounts the Battle of …
Rent It The Movie: Directed by Liliana Cavani in 1970, I Cannibali (or Year Of The Cannibals if you prefer) is set in the city of Milan where the government has cracked down on radicals and left their bodies littering the streets as a warning sign of sorts. The bodies come from all spectrums of life, male and female, young and old alike but it seems that the young outnumber the old by quite a …
Recommended Khumba , produced in South Africa, didn’t get a theatrical release here in the States but it’s been released on disc from Millennium Entertainment. The title character (voiced by Jake T
Skip It Clyde Barrow (Emile Hirsch) is a young troublemaker blessed with a “second sight” — an ability to see his own future. Bonnie Parker (Holliday Grainger) is a very young girl with dreams of Hollywood stardom
Highly Recommended Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. The TV Series: Of all the filmed versions of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice , the 1995 BBC-A&E television production seems to be the one that people (especially women) keep returning to again and again. Why is that?
Rent It Carrie Blu-ray Review Carrie isthelatest in a long running string of remakes of much-beloved films in thehorrorgenre that includes far too many films to even list or begin to count.Thistime around, the director is Kimberly Peirce ( Boys Don’tCry, Stop-Loss ) and the star is the up-and-comer ChloëGrace Moretz ( Hugo , Let Me In , Kick Ass ) in the role of Carrie White. The film …
DVD Talk Collector Series Some movies get a bum rap. Such is the case of Raise the Titanic (1980), a critical flop and, more importantly, a colossal commercial failure with $7 million in U.S. and Canadian earnings against a $40 million negative cost
Rent It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. In the opening scenes of We Are What We Are , the matriarch of the Parker family rushes to her truck in a downpour, tense and in fear.