Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. In the chilling opening of Jack Reacher , a man drives to a parking deck overlooking the Allegheny River in downtown Pittsburgh, loads a sniper rifle with handmade bullets, and shoots dead five people walking on the riverbank. Drawing from the pages of Lee Child’s “One Shot,” the ninth book in the Jack …
Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less Man’s ego versus nature’s uncontrollable power Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Big adventure Likes: Steven Spielberg, dinosaurs Dislikes: Mawkish sentimentality, post-production 3D conversions Hates: The very idea of velociraptors The Movie I remember anticipating the release of Jurassic Park as a young teen, thinking that this movie could potentially change the …
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Recommended The Movie: Directed by Jean Rollin in 1978, The Grapes Of Death is an interesting mix of Night Of The Living Dead and I Drink Your Blood , a horror movie with an environmental twist and a uniquely French tone. The picture begins with an opening scene in which a few men in rural France are dealing with some pesticides in use all around the grape fields of this particular area, known …
Recommended The Movie: When I reviewed the San Francisco Giants’ Collector’s Edition of Blu-ray discs that commemorated their 2012 World Series win , I bemoaned the fact that the set was as complete as could be, minus the addition of a season in review film, or even one covering the Giants’ move through the postseason. Lo and behold, it turns out MLB Video (in coordination with A&E) actually did …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Over a decade in the making, Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln is a meticulous, accomplished dramatization of the Great Emancipator’s push to enact the Thirteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution before the end of the Civil War
Recommended The Movie: Directed by Peter Chan in 2011, Dragon (retitled for release in North America by the Weinsteins for some reason, the original title was Wu-Xia ) stars Donnie Yen as a man named Liu Jin-xi. He’s lived in the same small town for about ten years now, having married a local single mother named Ayu (Tang Wei) and set up shop in town making paper. Together he and his wife are …
Recommended THE FILM Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials, not the current Blu-ray edition under review. To a socially conscious filmmaker like Hector Babenco (an Argentine-born Brazilian filmmaker who, before he took Hollywood and Oscar with 1985’s Kiss of the Spider Woman , made more or less directly activist narrative features in Brazil), it must have seemed …
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu – ray edition under review. Critics are fond of declaring things like, “It’s the best time I had at the movies all year!” Only, when we do, it’s not supposed to be about a movie that is over 70 years old.
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu – ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. After a violent confrontation with his wife’s lover, Paris attorney Paul Exben becomes a chameleon, slinking through the lives of others while calculating his future. This French thriller, directed by Eric Lartigau, is less suspenseful than haunting, and Romain Duris gives Exben a wide-eyed alertness seemingly …