Skip It To the less-attentive viewer, Sisters & Brothers might seem like a complete and fully-formed movie, but it’s merely an optical illusion created by the film’s talented cast. At least six of the film’s ten central performers manage to lift impressive amounts of genuine emotion out of director / writer Carl Bessai’s scattershot, clumsy screenplay, infusing a number of scenes with a sense of …
Highly Recommended A fiftysomething-year-old Peter Cushing, knife in hand, wrestles with a topless hooker in this British proto-slasher from the class of 1968. I can — and I will! — write a long, rambling review about Corruption , but that one, singular sentence really does tell you everything you need to know
DVD Talk Collector Series Note : For whatever reason, Universal Pictures has not yet set a US release date for Fast & Furious 6 . This is a review of the UK’s disc, which is completely region free and will play without any problems in a US Blu-Ray player. In 2009, after the box office fizzle of Tokyo Drift , Fast & Furious made a surprise bid to bring the series back from the edge of DTV by …
Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less Go inside The Shining …really inside Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Good documentaries, conspiracy theories, Stephen King Likes: The Shining Dislikes: Obsessives Hates: Pretentious film study, Barry Lyndon The Movie Where is the line between precise genius and pretentious schmuck? My gues is it was very close to Stanley Kubrick, whose meticulous and exasperating …
Recommended “Space Junk,” made for IMAX theatres, presents us with a growing problem that hasn’t gotten a lot of attention (although it was the subject of an early song by Devo with the same name but not included here): Just what happens to satellites orbiting the Earth after they’ve outlived their usefulness? It turns out that many of them just stay there, some for several decades after they’ve …
Highly Recommended Homeland Season 2 Blu-ray Review Click onan image to view the Blu-ray screenshotwith 1080p resolution Read the entire review
DVD Talk Collector Series THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Horror fans rejoice, Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th is here to scratch your itch for behind-the-scenes footage, production secrets and Friday lore.
Highly Recommended The Blu-ray cover art touts The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh as “The Original Classic,” an ironic proclamation considering that this 1977 animated feature is actually a compilation of three earlier featurettes with original bridging material and a new ending. Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966, originally shown with The Ugly Dachshund ) came first, followed by …
Recommended The Movies: The Amityville Horror , directed by Stuart Rosenberg for the late, lamented AIP and released through MGM, is pretty well established as one of the more popular seventies supernatural films and stands as a picture with a sizeable fan base. It did well enough to inspire quite a few sequels, all of which vary pretty widely in terms of quality
Recommended The Movie: In retrospect, seeing the trailer for Crash ahead of the Disconnect Blu-ray was something that may have clued me in to what the latter was going to be about. And in what could serve as a fitting bookend to the former, the latter was an intriguing prospect, with several interwoven storylines and familiar faces in them to help move things along