Highly Recommended The Lunchbox Blu-ray Review The Lunchbox was a surprise indie success in theUnited States box-office and it has already become one of the mostunexpectedhits of the entire year worldwide. The effort is from first-timefilmmaker Ritesh Batraand it stars acclaimed actors Irrfan Khan and Nimrat Kaur
Rent It Capital ( Le Capital , 2012) is corporate thriller about the newly-crowned head of a leading French bank trying to hold onto his position amidst internal power struggles and a hostile takeover plot by an American hedge fund manager. Despite good intentions, it’s an almost complete misfire from director Costa-Gavras ( Z , Stage of Siege ). The film, based on a novel by St phane Osmont …
DVD Talk Collector Series Douglas Sirk’s All That Heaven Allows (1955), a slyly subversive romantic melodrama starring Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson, like other Sirk (and Ross Hunter-produced) films from the same era, has a strange history. When it was new, the film was a big, mainstream success though dismissed by critics as a trashy women’s “weapie.” Twenty-five years later it was regarded as …
Highly Recommended For many, Ralph Bakshi’s Coonskin is still a lost picture. Upon its release in 1975, picketers from the Congress of Racial Equality, led by Al Sharpton and Elaine Parker, pressured Paramount Pictures to cancel the film’s release, despite the fact that the majority of the group’s members had not seen it. After a screening at the Museum of Modern Art that was crashed by a …
Highly Recommended For many, Ralph Bakshi’s Coonskin is still a lost picture. Upon its release in 1975, picketers from the Congress of Racial Equality, led by Al Sharpton and Elaine Parker, pressured Paramount Pictures to cancel the film’s release, despite the fact that the majority of the group’s members had not seen it. After a screening at the Museum of Modern Art that was crashed by a …
Highly Recommended Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the DVD portion of Ernest & Celestine . The Movie: In the animated charmer Ernest & Celestine , a mismatched pair forge an unlikely friendship as fugitives in a watercolor-dappled world – what’s not to love about that? Arriving on DVD and Blu Ray in both its original French and a good English-language dub, Ernest & Celestine is …