Recommended The Movie: Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni in 1961, La Notte follows a wealthy married couple, wife Lidia (Jeanne Moreau) and her husband, an author named Giovanni (Marcello Mastroianni), as they travel around their home city of Milan.
Highly Recommended Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira (1988) was more or less my first exposure to Japanese animation. A friend of mine, who had spent several years of his childhood in Japan, owned both domestic VHS versions of the film in the early 1990s: one was subtitled, the other was dubbed in English. Not surprisingly, the film’s mature subject matter, intense atmosphere and jaw-dropping visuals …
Highly Recommended First released in Great Britain as Expos and in the United States as Trauma , the now-titled House on Straw Hill (1976) is an extremely minor, muddled erotic thriller with slight horror movie elements, and notable only as the lone British film on the original list of “Video Nasties” compiled by the Department of Public Prosecution. Severin Films’ new Blu-ray presents it …
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 Coming off its sixth year on the Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, Robot Chicken arrives on Blu Ray with its herky-jerky satirical mojo basically intact.
Rent It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. I had only seen bits and pieces of Kevin Hart’s standup work on YouTube before viewing Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain , which presents his complete 2012 performance at Madison Square Garden. Hart uses the venue to riff on his recent divorce, worldwide tour, romantic relationships and everyday challenges as a newly …
Rent It THE FILM: The United States government has nearly eliminated crime and unemployment by implementing an annual 12-hour “purge,” during which time all crime is legal. This is a ridiculous yet intriguing premise for a film, and it begs a number of questions about human nature and social interaction.
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Recommended The Movie: Directed by Chad Crawford Kinkle, 2013’s Jug Face is a twisted tale of backwoods horror spun through a narrative that blends the worst of superstition and religion with a sort of inbred hillbilly-ish setting to create something unexpectedly unique. If you look at the cover art, it looks like maybe this is some sort of possession movie, they seem semi-popular these days …
Rent It The Movie: Danish thriller A Hijacking arrives on Blu Ray closely aligned with the theatrical release of Tom Hanks’ docudrama Captain Phillips . Coincidence? Perhaps Magnolia was hoping to capitalize on some of the hype from the Hanks film, but this one presents a darker, less dynamic take on the rash of ocean hijackings off the coast of Somalia soaking up the headlines in recent years …
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