Highly Recommended If you’re just looking for a quick, eight-word review, I could probably get away with leaving it at this: Intruder totally lives up to its cover art. Okay, you know how Joe Bob Briggs coined the phrase “Spam in a Cabin” to describe one of the most tried and true horror formulas of the 1980s? Y’know, a gaggle of horny twentysomethings trot off to some hopelessly out-of-the-way …
Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are promotional stills provided by Kino Lorber and from other sources, and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. “Industrial continuity is ensured, whatever happens.” Lucas Belvaux’s cool, elegant Rapt is a timely enough thriller, involving as it does the kidnapping and ransoming of a high-rolling, cocky, jet-setting …
Rent It The Movie: Originally intended to be directed by Brett Ratner, 2011’s Conan The Barbarian wound up being helmed by Marcus Nispel, the same man who brought us remakes of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Friday The 13th . When the film begins after some narration from Morgan Freeman, a Cimmerian warrior named Corin (Ron Perlman) helps his wife give birth to their baby boy right there on the …
Recommended The Film Web Series: Assassin’s Creed: Lineage isn’t being marketed properly. There’s really no way of getting around it: claiming that it’s “the movie prequel” to the wildly popular videogame series misleads those who glance over the cover, since the main feature only takes up about thirty-five (35) minutes — even though the back of the packaging insists that it’s two-and-a-half …
Highly Recommended Though well regarded, Little Big Man (1970) is nonetheless a vastly underrated work, and one of the all-time great Westerns, the “the story of the Human Beings, who was promised land where they could live in peace.
Recommended THE SHOW: Please Note: The images here are from the standard DVD release, not the Blu-Ray currently under review. . Yeah, that’s right
Rent It The Movie: Developed, written and produced by Mortal Kombat superfan Kevin Tancharoen, Mortal Kombat: Legacy was originally conceived as a web series that premiered in the spring of 2011 on Machinima.com’s Youtube channel after a film that Tancharoen made got noticed. The series proved fairly popular with fans of the Mortal Kombat universe and Tancharoen’s attention to detail assured …
Rent It “I am at war — against ill winds, contrary currents, and incompetent officers. You’d best join my war, Mr.
DVD Talk Collector Series THE FILM: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from the 2004 DVD release, not the Blu-ray edition under review. “The horrible thing about life is this: Everyone has their reasons.” A tragicomic masterpiece and an all-around great, inventive, sparkling, deservedly revered movie, Jean Renoir’s The Rules of the Game ( La R gle du jeu ) (released in 1939) is …
Highly Recommended The body of this review was what I had written previously for the original WWII in HD Blu-ray release. However, I have updated the extras section (as the A/V presentation is identical to the previous release), as well as the ‘Overall’ closing comments and my score has been adjusted accordingly