Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. After leaving a screening of Magic Mike , I was hustling toward the parking lot when I ran into a fairly conservative friend from high school. After we exchanged pleasantries, the inevitable happened: “What did you see?” he said
Rent It The Movie: “It turned out to be a wacky, impromptu romp that puzzled a few people at the time but as the years have gone by it now stands as a fond reminder of that period in our lives.” -Paul McCartney, from the accompanying booklet Magical Mystery Tour was a film project produced and directed by The Beatles (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr) themselves, from …
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. Legend has it that audiences in the early 1920s were so convinced by the double-amputee special effect in the Lon Chaney vehicle The Penalty that the studio started attaching a scene of the actor walking down some stairs to the tail end of prints so people …
DVD Talk Collector Series Note: The screencaps in this review are taken from the DVD edition of Little Shop of Horrors : The Director’s Cut and are not indicative of the Blu-Ray’s picture quality.
DVD Talk Collector Series THE SHOW: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials not the Blu-ray edition under review. The distinct pleasure of serialized storytelling is the slow burn.
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the standard edition DVD issued by Kino and not the Blu-ray edition under review. This is my first exposure to the work of Mario Bava, but based on Black Sunday , I need to start seeking out his other films right quick
Recommended The Boys and Girls of Sigma Phi. Some Will Live. Some Will Die.
DVD Talk Collector Series One of the all-time great boxing movies, Body and Soul (1947) instantly became the template even for the great ones that followed. Champion and The Set-Up (both 1949) told similar stories, while The Harder They Fall (1956), also excellent, is practically a remake of Body and Soul only told from the perspective of a cynical publicist rather than the fighter. Body and …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials and stills provided by The Criterion Collection, not the Blu-ray edition under review. John Schlesinger’s followup to his acclaimed hit Midnight Cowboy (1969), though it didn’t win the Oscars and still isn’t as widely known or venerated as its predecessor, still stands as his best, most personal …
Highly Recommended The Movie: It’s only taken me 18 years to actually sit down and watch The Brothers McMullen on home video, but I do remember the hype machine going into overdrive way back in the day when young 20-something Edward Burns was lugging cable and equipment for the entertainment variety show Entertainment Tonight all the while writing and shooting his first feature film for about …