Recommended Like most folks born during the last several decades, I grew up watching syndicated Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies whenever possible. These bite-sized cartoons set the bar extremely high for American animation during the 20th century, rivaled only by other long-running classics like Popeye the Sailor Read the entire review
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Highly Recommended Joan Crawford seems to be the only major star from Hollywood's Golden Age whose movies today are stubbornly, consistently viewed through the prism of modern sensibilities and hindsight. Today, virtually all her post-MGM performances are regarded as high camp, even in acknowledged classics like Johnny Guitar (1954)
Recommended The Movie: Despite trying constantly, poor Niko ( Generation War 's Tom Schilling) finds himself unable to procure a cup of coffee during the twenty-four hours or so that unfold in Jan Ole Gerster's debut feature, A Coffee In Berlin (retitled from the original: Oh Boy ). This failure turns out to be emblematic of the many misfortunes that befall him during this short period.
Recommended THE FILM: The filmmakers behind this 1988 remake of The Blob understand how ridiculous a giant gelatinous killer really is. Chuck Russell directs from a script co-written by Frank Darabont, and The Blob embraces its B-movie mentality like a long-lost lover returned. Thirty years of special effects maturation allows this remake to up the gory ante, and The Blob is delightfully over …
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. The filmmakers behind this 1988 remake of The Blob understand how ridiculous a giant gelatinous killer really is. Chuck Russell directs from a script co-written by Frank Darabont, and The Blob embraces its B-movie mentality like a long-lost lover returned
Skip It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. The 1988 Dutch/French thriller The Vanishing is intense and devastating; a harrowing portrait of evil. Director George Sluizer remade the film for American audiences in 1993, but this retelling is sanitized, overacted and dull
Recommended The Movie: Frontera is an issue-based ensemble melodrama that manages to extract enough emotion to get its points through while staying fairly levelheaded. It's not a masterpiece by any means and suffers from some of the technical and narrative issues that usually plague a first time feature director, but it's also nowhere near as preachy and pretentious as similar efforts like Babel …
DVD Talk Collector Series NOTE: The images featured here were taken from promotional materials and do not reflect the quality of the Blu-ray under review. The Movie: Like his debut film Boy Meets Girl , writer-director Leos Carax's second feature, 1986's Mauvais Sang (the literal translation is “Bad Blood,” although the UK title was The Night Is Young ), focuses on a lovesick young man named …
Skip It The Movie: Shock Waves is one of those 70s cheap genre exploitation flicks where the artwork promoting it is much better than the movie itself. It takes a killer premise, Nazi zombies bred to survive underwater come back decades after World War II to wreak havoc, and destroys it with a dull and lifeless execution, depthless characters, horrid acting and worst of all for such a film …