Rent It Sengoku Basara – Season 1 and Season 2 SengokuBasara isan anime adaptation of a video game. Â If thatinstantly brings to mind a series that focuses more on creating”intense” a… Read the entire review
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution.
Recommended The Movie: Crashout , released in 1955, follows a group of six convicts (William Bendix, Arthur Kennedy, Luther Adler, Gene Evans, William Talman and Marshall Thompson) after they escape from prison in a big “crashout” with several others who didn’t make it out very far. The six lucky ones quickly find an old mine shaft where they hide out for a couple days and plan their next moves …
Recommended The Movie: From Ralph Bakshi, the man who brought Robert Crumb’s Fritz The Cat to animated form a year earlier, comes 1973’s bizarre counter culture animated feature, Heavy Traffic . Given that Fritz and its more explicit content became a huge box office hit when released, it probably won’t surprise too many to learn that Bakshi returns to that same adult landscape for this mix of …
Recommended The Movie: The directorial debut of Eric Red (who also wrote), 1989’s Cohen And Tate begins at a farm, looking as serene and peaceful as you’d expect, except for the armed guards surrounding the house.
Highly Recommended The Movie: With the news of the day covering things like America’s security agencies monitoring their citizens’ phone calls and communications in various electronic forms, the Oscar-nominated Dror Moreh documentary The Gatekeepers couldn’t see a better time for a video release. Moreh interviewed the last six former directors of the Shin Bet, the principal security organization …
Rent It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. 21 & Over is not the first comedy to replicate the formula from The Hangover in hopes of striking box office gold. Nor am I the first reviewer to say that 21 & Over is likely only appealing to those 21 and under.
Recommended Alice (Juno Temple) and John (Michael Angarano) are young and in love. Wait, scratch that: let’s go with “young, in love, and flat broke” instead. That’s what overpriced, [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] Read the entire review
Rent It The Movie: Talk about non-truth in advertising. When the advance trailer for Upside Down first turned up online, its parade of eye-popping imagery promised a moody and enigmatic, Inception -like immersive experience. While there was a lot of potential in this tale of young lovers separated by planets having opposing gravity pulls, the facile romance at the film’s core brings to mind the …
Highly Recommended THE FILM Please Note: The images used here are stills provided by Music Box Films and are not taken from the current Blu-ray edition under review. It’s always troubling to ponder, the way that the time, place, and culture in which one is born and raised can so easily slot you onto the wrong side of history. How sure can any of us be that we would’ve been in the tiny minority …