Recommended Stagefright: Michelle Soavi's Stagefright , perennial also-ran of Italian horror, makes its Blu-ray debut, courtesy of the fine folks at Blue Underground, those who won't rest until they've gotten us all up to date on everything exploitation. Soavi's whodunit slasher opus trades heavily on atmosphere to deliver some gory goods and lots of stylish tension.
Skip It The Movie: Did you ever play this game with your friends as a child? You and your buddies sit around in a circle, each of you write a paragraph of a short story, fold it, then another kid writes the next paragraph without seeing what comes before it.
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Paul Lynch's Prom Night is just one of the many slashers released in the wake of Halloween . It pales in comparison, but does feature that film's star: Jamie Lee Curtis
DVD Talk Collector Series Man Hunt (1941) is a terrific, tense thriller directed by Fritz Lang and released about six months prior to America's entry into the Second World War. That made it one of a handful of anti-Nazi Hollywood movies ( Confessions of a Nazi Spy , Foreign Correspondent , and A Yank in the R.A.F.
Recommended Gangster Nick (Simon Oakland), referring to Toby's (Elvis Presley) na vet : “Is he kidding?” Gangster Carmine (Jack Kruschen), exasperated : “I just don't know anymore.” A lesser Elvis movie that breaks away somewhat from the usual formula, Follow That Dream (1962) unwisely casts The King as a painfully stupid country bumpkin along the lines of Gomer Pyle.
Recommended Most people fear change. Whether clouded by nostalgia or the comfort of daily routines, any step in a new direction is bound to challenge those who aren't ready for it…and while the reboot of a beloved movie and TV franchise hopefully won't affect you as much as a career switch or cross-country move, some people get awfully defensive about their escapist entertainment.
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. Peter Sellers reteams with his Pink Panther co-conspirator Blake Edwards to cut loose and indulge their love of silent film comedies. The concept for The Party is something Chaplin or Keaton could have done wonders with, and though the …
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Ivan Reitman steps outside his comfort zone of zany comedies to direct his best project in years, Draft Day , which explores the behind-the-scenes dealings of a fictional NFL Draft. Like Moneyball before it, Draft Day makes accessible drama of a fairly technical process.
DVD Talk Collector Series Any good film critic/historian worth his salt tries to experience as many movies of all kinds as humanly possible. One simply can't write intelligently about Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976) without an awareness of the influences of John Ford's seminal John Wayne Western The Searchers (1956), for instance, just as The Right Stuff (1983) is essentially a brilliant …
Skip It THE MOVIE: Oh, American history! So full of passion, intrigue, and even more passion. What a soap opera you are! How many crises were solved with longing looks across wooden tables