The Sitter (Blu-ray)
Skip It THE MOVIE: Please Note: The screengrabs used here are taken from the standard-definition DVD included in the set, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
March 24, 2012
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Skip It THE MOVIE: Please Note: The screengrabs used here are taken from the standard-definition DVD included in the set, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Melancholia opens with a series of painterly images, accompanied by Wagner and presented in agonizingly slow motion. That presentation gives the otherwise befuddling tableaus a weight and significance that we don’t fully grasp–except for the final one, which encompasses nothing less than the end of the world
Recommended “It was Avatar who fought alongside my father against the first mutant attack. So, now we have our messiah back again
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from promotional materials provided by Sony Pictures Classics, not the Blu-ray edition under review. It happens to the best of them, but it’s not necessarily a bad thing. I’m talking about the “maturing” of some prominent, long-running filmmakers–John Waters, Pedro Almodovar, David Cronenberg–who started out as …
Recommended Would you believe the directors responsible for the likes of Nutty Professor II, Twilight – New Moon, See This Movie , and Little Fockers could have been responsible for delivering one of the best comedies the 90’s had to offer?
Highly Recommended THE SHOW: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the series’ promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. I’ve been known to complain from time to time how, every Thursday night, my Twitter feed fills up with quotes from NBC’s comedy line-up. Every other tweet ends up being someone repeating a line from that evening’s 30 Rock , Parks & Recreation , or …
Highly Recommended Don’t read this review of Princess Jellyfish . I mean it! Watch a couple of (completely legal and legitimate!) episodes on YouTube , then run out and buy this DVD/Blu-ray combo pack
Recommended THE SERIES: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from promotional materials provided by PBS, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from promotional materials provided by Fox Searchlight, not the Blu-ray edition under review. Sean Durkin’s Martha Marcy May Marlene is the kind of film that, in a better world, would be showered with Oscars and have the whole culture (not just the little patch of movie-reviewer land that, for example, yours truly …
DVD Talk Collector Series THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the film’s promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. The next time you hear someone grousing about how movies are only supposed to be 90 minutes long and anything over two hours is an affront to their patience, hand them a copy of Otto Preminger’s Anatomy of a Murder . After they have sat …