So Undercover ( Blu – ray )
Rent It THE FILM: During the opening scenes of So Undercover , in which a borderline obnoxious Miley Cyrus scales rooftops during a private-eye gig, I assumed the worst.
March 12, 2013
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Rent It THE FILM: During the opening scenes of So Undercover , in which a borderline obnoxious Miley Cyrus scales rooftops during a private-eye gig, I assumed the worst.
DVD Talk Collector Series THE MOVIE: Please Note: The images used here are taken from a previous standard-definition DVD release, not the Blu – ray edition under review. I’ve always considered Badlands , the 1973 debut of writer/director/producer Terrence Malick, to be a little outside the rest of his oeuvre.
Recommended An unusual choice for indie distributor Twilight Time to sublicense from 20th Century-Fox, Pony Soldier (1952) is a once popular, now all but forgotten “Northwestern” starring Tyrone Power.
Highly Recommended Reviewed by Glenn Erickson Zero Dark Thirty is exactly what the ads say it is, a realistic account of the decade-long search for the 21st century’s first global enemy number one, Osama bin Laden. Unlike its Oscar competition Argo , the facts have not been teased in the interest of greater audience involvement; the details of this story are fascinating on their own. Director …
Recommended The second and last Derek Flint movie, In Like Flint (1967) is widely considered inferior even by die-hard fans of the first entry, Our Man Flint (1966). Probably due to my strong dislike of the original movie, my expectations were so low there was nowhere to go but up with the second one. Overall it’s not an improvement, weaker as it is in some ways while a bit better in others, and …
DVD Talk Collector Series THE FILM Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials provided by the film’s distributor, not the Blu – ray edition of the film under review. It’s an epiphany that will come at different points for different viewers of L os Carax’s Holy Motors — that moment amid the film’s mysterious, increasingly bizarre, plot(s) when you realize that what it’s …
Highly Recommended Easter Parade Blu – ray Review Irving Berlin’s EasterParade is one of the greatest film musicals. The film stars JudyGarland,Fred Astaire, Peter Lawford, and Ann Miller and each performer bringssome oftheir greatest work to this “parade” of shows, featuring Academy Awardwinningmusic through adapted music score arranged by Johnny Green and RogerEdens. Easter Parade is one of the …
Highly Recommended THE FILM Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition of the film under review. We’re all fairly well-accustomed by now to movies that openly, self-reflexively acknowledge their own artificiality — so many different filmmakers, from Godard to De Palma to Tarantino , have been doing it for so long, each for their own …
DVD Talk Collector Series All’s Well That Ends Well, at least for the 1970 film version of William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar . Not a great success when it was new, this Panavision production had previously been released to DVD by Lions Gate/Artisan in 2004 and 2007, both times utilizing the same old, genuinely ugly and unpardonably panned-and-scanned video master.
Highly Recommended Anna Karenina is the latest adaptation to be filmed of Leo Tolstoy’s classic and acclaimed novel. This time around the film auteur and director bringing it all together for the big-screen is none other than the spectacularly gifted Joe Wright ( Pride and Prejudice , Atonement ), who brings with him an unusual and unique approach to the source material by turning it into …