Rent It The Movie: In the interest of full disclosure, I have never really seen any of Arnold Schwarzenegger's work since his he exited the Governor's office in California some time back.
Recommended Shortly after the beginning of World War II, a shipyard is bombed. Among the casualties: the USS Sea Tiger, a brand-new submarine that had yet to make it out of the dock.
Recommended The Movie: Directed by Walter Hill who co-wrote with David Giler and Michael Kane, 1981's Southern Comfort takes place in Louisiana in 1973. Here, nine National Guardsmen are on a weekend training mission in the backwoods swamps.
Recommended The Movie: The latest film from Juno Mak (probably best known for his work on 2010's Revenge: A Love Story ) and his directorial debut begins when a man named Chin (Chin Siu Ho) moves into a tenement style apartment building. He shuffles into his new apartment with a few relics from his past: costumes, in need of repair, from the days when he was a successful actor. These days, Chin …
DVD Talk Collector Series A fascinating work, Georges Franju's Judex (1963) is at once unique while heavily influenced by both silent and contemporary films alike, and it probably helped spur the increased production less arty but likewise stylized movies in its wake. A crime thriller with science fiction and fantasy trappings, it remakes the famous 1916 French serial with less interest in the …
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: With the amusing, ahead-of-its-time 1948 satire So This Is New York , Olive Films continues their plunge into the Paramount holdings for offbeat films – this particular one serves as a good vehicle for the semi-forgotten radio and television …
Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. It would seem that in the wake of success of both the 1939 version of Wuthering Heights and perhaps even more so Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca in 1940, a slew of brooding romantic period pieces followed. Olive Films has started to corner the market …
Rent It No, you're thinking of The Burning , but I get why you'd go there.
DVD Talk Collector Series Cannibal Holocaust: “Just sit back and enjoy the show.” Cannibal Holocaust is the Star Wars of cannibal movies. It’s the Star Wars of found-footage movies, and pretty much exploitation films in general
Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less Jason Bateman succeeds in front of and behind the camera Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Dark comedies, Kathryn Hahn Likes: Jason Bateman, Allison Janney Dislikes: Spelling bee pressure Hates: Crappy parents The Movie A full-grown man enters an eighth-grade spelling bee, and proceeds to systematically decimate his kiddie competitors with evil glee, before …