Recommended Adapted from Sidney “I Dream of Jeannie” Sheldon's first novel, published in 1970, The Naked Face (1984) is a fairly good little thriller, not great, but better than one would have expected from Cannon Films, a company known primarily for its Charles Bronson and Chuck Norris action-exploitation films. The Naked Face has its share of flaws and its central mystery isn't all that …
Skip It Of all the criticisms one could direct at a movie, “cliched” is probably the most common, but to call a movie “cliched” isn't entirely straightforward.
Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less “Weird Al”'s cinematic highlight Reviewer's Bias* Loves: “Weird Al” Yankovic, UHF Likes: Sketch films Dislikes: Anniversary editions light on new content Hates: The disappearance of low-budget UHF stations The Story So Far… UHF was released on DVD in June of 2002, and DVDTalk has a review of that release . The Movie Though at first glance it makes little …
Highly Recommended The Movie: It's beyond a doubt that Dog Day Afternoon is a timeless masterpiece that revolutionized the bank robbery genre and is one of the most important works of 70s American cinema, thought by many, myself included, to be the greatest period in film history. Considering Sidney Lumet is one of my top five favorite directors and Dog Day Afternoon is my second favorite film …
Recommended Content: Based on the critically acclaimed PlayStation 3/X-Box 360 video game, Bayonetta , comes Bayonetta: Bloody Fate , a somewhat sequel/retelling of the original game. With the writers from the game and the studio behind the production of the aesthetically stunning, Last Exile and the anime powerhouse, Hellsing , all on board.
Highly Recommended The success of the James Bond movies, Thunderball (1965) particularly, launched a worldwide spy movie craze that lasted about five years and resulted in probably close to 200 knock-offs. Although several very good spy movies were made around this time, notably The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1965) and The Quiller Memorandum (1966), the vast majority, including the two Derek …
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. Serge Bourguignon's Sundays and Cyb le , a 1962 drama that went on to win the Best Foreign Language Oscar the following year, is a unique movie. The only other film it brings to mind is Ren Cl ment's Forbidden Games , the tale of two young …
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Recommended THE FILM: Perhaps Sylvester Stallone should recruit Christopher Walken if he makes another Expendables film. Fresh off an Academy Award win for The Deer Hunter , Walken played a mercenary for John Irvin in The Dogs of War . This meat-and-potatoes thriller sees Walken battling a ruthless African dictator and shady international business tycoons while his personal life crumbles
Rent It The Movie: A grimy tale of corrupt grave robbers run amok in 19th century Scotland, 1985's atmospheric thriller The Doctor and the Devils was one of the non-comedy films executive produced by comedic legend Mel Brooks. Though (justifiably) not as well-regarded as Brooks' other not-funny producing ventures The Elephant Man and The Fly , this moody, impressively cast movie nevertheless has …