Rent It Genshiken Second Generation Blu-ray Review Genshiken Second Generation is actually asequelseries to the Genshiken anime production. While it's officiallyconsidered a “second season” it's actually the third season producedand there's even an OVA spin-off which preceded it as well. (The seriesevenmakes a referential joke to this odd fact in one of the episodepreviews.) Â It's a …
Highly Recommended The Movie: Chris Rock joined the upper echelons of the stand-up comedy game nearly twenty years ago, and even though he hasn't released an hour-long special in seven years, it's that work onstage that defines his career.
Highly Recommended “When I start out to make a fool of myself there's very little can stop me.” – Michael O'Hara I've seen Orson Welles's The Lady from Shanghai (1947) five or six times through the years, and still half the time I don't know what the hell is going on. Howard Hawks's The Big Sleep (1946) is a model of comprehensive linear storytelling by comparison. The Lady from Shanghai isn't …
Recommended I'd held back on watching At War with the Army (1950), Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis's starring debut, specifically because that was their one movie that had fallen into the public domain. Years back I made it through about five minutes of one those Dollar Video versions, but it looked terrible and I stopped watching
Recommended The photos accompanying this review are taken from promotional materials and do not reflect the quality of the Blu-ray under review. The Movie: Why has the goofy 1989 comedy Troop Beverly Hills remained a perennial favorite for over two and a half decades
Recommended In 2013, Olive Films released John Ford's The Quiet Man on Blu-ray for its 50th Anniversary, complete with a beautiful new restoration (DVDTalk has a review of that disc here ). Although the presentation was impeccable and the set came with a lengthy booklet, the one area where it came up a bit short was in the supplement department, offering only a previously released 25-minute …
Recommended THE FILM: Ah, My Girl . A film I remember really liking when I was 11. Now that I am pushing 30, some of its charms have worn off, though it remains a decent coming-of-age story
Rent It Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. The Movie: The artist's urge to create, despite overwhelming resistance from the outside world, gets a sympathetic if plodding treatment in the biopic Vincent & Theo .
Rent It The Movie: Directed by Mick Jackson from a script by James Hicks, 1990's Chattahoochee is based on the true story' of Emmett Foley, played in the film by Gary Oldman.
Highly Recommended “I just want to meet a guy I like as much as you. Is that too much to ask?” [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] Paige (Gillian Jacobs) and Sasha Read the entire review