Highly Recommended Wow, what a surprise! If you've suffered through as many public domain movies from the 1930s as I have, films produced and distributed by small, long-defunct and forgotten companies, you'll know that the vast majority are quite dreadful, and normally only the cheapest of home video distributors (e.g., Alpha Video) will release them at all, typically with terrible video …
Highly Recommended Salvador Blu-ray Review Oliver Stone has made a name for himself as apoliticalfilmmaker with an agenda to portray American history (and indeed thehistory ofthe world) through his unique perspective. The filmmaking of Stone isundoubtedly political in nature and he is one to create a variety ofcinematicportraits with a keen sensibility unlike most other filmmakers
Recommended Save Your Legs Blu-ray Review The world ofprofession sports has led to so many famous sports films coveringglobal favoriteslike Baseball, Basketball, Soccer, Football, Tennis… and Cricket?
Rent It The Collection: Although this newly released DVD set from stand-up comic and actor Richard Lewis has been titled Bundle of Nerves , it might have been more appropriate to call it Bundle of Crap I Found Lying Around My House . This new title would better speak to the lack of cohesion and consistency of the four selections spread across these two DVDs, as well as providing the only …
Recommended Almost everyone remembers the story of Sleeping Beauty —whether it be the Brothers Grimm fairy tale (itself based on a story by Charles Perrault) or Walt Disney's 1959 animated adaptation—but very few would rank the latter with Disney's very best animated productions. At just 75 minutes in length, the film still feels awfully bloated: after all, the original clocks in at …
Recommended THE FILM: After the monstrous success of his first Transformers trilogy, Hollywood outlaw Michael Bay parted ways with star Shia Labeouf and began a new chapter in his franchise, dialing back the explosive action and addressing the pacing and character development issues that plagued the three earlier films. Just kidding! Transformers: Age of Extinction delivers the Bay-hem in spades …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. I try to refrain from calling a movie “The Next…” something when writing these reviews
Rent It Few directors have had careers as unusual and eclectic as filmmaker Monte Hellman. Probably best known for Two-Lane Blacktop and his most recent feature film, Road to Nowhere , as well as producing Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs , Hellman was one of many filmmakers mentored by Roger Corman, and Hellman's early work includes titles like Beast From Haunted Cove and The Terror (in 1989 …
Highly Recommended The Originals Season 1 Blu-ray Review The Originals is a spin-off series baseduponcharacters created and introduced in The Vampire Diaries , andit is acreation of writer Julie Plec, who is the head-writer and showrunner ofbothseries. The concept of the show revolves around a group of charactersreferredto as being the 'originals' – i.e.
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the standard-definition DVD included in the retail package, not the Blu-ray edition under review. It's wonderful how a good movie can sometimes turn a night around. I have to remind myself of that sometimes.