Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials provided by HBO Films, not the Blu-ray edition under review. I have never seen the groundbreaking 1973 PBS documentary series An American Family , but I have long been aware of it; it’s often cited as the first step American TV took toward the televised “reality” that’s proven as enduringly popular as it …
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Highly Recommended Madonna: Truth or Dare Blu-ray Review Madonna is one of the most well lovedmusic acts in the history of pop music. Her albums continue to top thebillboardsales charts with each release
Highly Recommended The Descendants Blu-ray Review The Descendants is a tale about families, the necessity of love, and the determinationto be capable of moving forward.
Recommended Wizards Blu-ray Review RalphBakshi certainly seemed to recognize unique ways to createsci-fi/fantasyworlds in animation. Wizards doesn’t necessarilyseem reminiscent of anything else. Perhaps other Ralph Bakshi movies?Even thatdoesn’t seem to be a positive given because of how this particularfilmmakingexperience was aimed at appealing more directly to families and a wideraudiencethan …
DVD Talk Collector Series THE FILM: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from the DVD version included in the set, not the Blu-ray edition under review. A cinematic event years in the making, the 2010 restoration of Georges M li s’s technically pioneering, thematically prescient, eternally charming 1902 film A Trip to the Moon ( Le Voyage dans la Lune ) represents, for the …
Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from promotional materials provided by Kino Lorber, not the Blu-ray edition under review. Celebrity profiles might seem to be one of the more disposable categories of entertainment, but like anything else, it’s all in the details and execution.
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from promotional materials and the 2009 DVD release , not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Rent It THE FILM: Whitney Houston’s first acting role was a good fit: She played international music and film superstar Rachel Marron, a vulnerable diva whose life was threatened by a crazed fan, alongside Kevin Costner as her tireless protector in Director Mick Jackson’s The Bodyguard . Critics were not kind to the film, but it raked in over $400 million in worldwide receipts and its soundtrack …
Recommended The Film: Kathryn Stockett wrote her wildly-popular novel The Help as a way of fondly remembering the black women who helped raise her, and her close friend, director Tate Taylor, during and after the civil rights surge in the ’60s (and ’70s). Taylor obviously gets the fondness that Stockett crams into her book, because his film version follows a similar tone. While it’s still a …