Rent It The majority of American film fans will only maybe know Jay Chou from The Green Hornet , the underrated Michel Gondry-directed, Seth Rogen / Evan Goldberg-scripted adaptation that cast the actor as actual hero Kato to Rogen’s dim Hornet. In his home country of China, however, Chou rose to fame as a songwriter for numerous pop acts after an appearance on a televised competition show, then …
Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less Celebrating George Pal’s mostly-forgotten animated legacy Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Animation Likes: Davey & Goliath , Gumby , Historical collections that don’t ignore controversy Dislikes: Most puppets Hates: How artists oft go unappreciated The Movie Though I consider myself film literate, before watching this set, the extent of my knowledge of George Pal …
Highly Recommended To be perfectly honest, when I requested The Attack it was listed in our screener pool only as “Attack” and I thought it was the same-named 1955 Robert Aldrich war movie. Instead, it turned out to be a partly American-financed movie about an Arab man living in Tel Aviv coming to grips with the realization that his wife may have been responsible for a suicide bombing that …
Rent It THE SHOW: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. HBO’s latest “miniseries event” certainly has an impressive CV
Skip It Eleven days following the release of the 30th Anniversary DVD Edition of The Message (also known as Mohammad, Messenger of God , 1976), word came that the Islamic producer-director of the film, Syrian-born Moustapha Akkad (best known as the producer of the Halloween film series), was murdered in Amman, Jordan , one of the 56 fatalities resulting from of a terrorist bombing at a wedding …
Recommended Barbara (2012) is a low-key, nearly minimalist drama about an East German doctor trying to keep co-workers and neighbors at arm’s length while she plots to flee to the West and into the arms of the West German boyfriend trying to facilitate her escape.
Rent It Planes may be set “above the world of Cars !”, but it struggles to reach even the modest heights of Pixar’s most lackluster franchise. Get it? Heights?
Skip It The Movie: I am not entirely sure where one could place a Shroud of Turin on the movie formula where a young actor that has been labeled (either by the populous or in increasing cases recently by a movie studio) the next big thing or an up and comer is cast opposite a veteran actor or actors. Perhaps a director is included in the mix. But growing up, I can recall Tom Cruise almost …
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