Recommended Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries – Season 2 – Blu-ray Review It’s time for a little bit of an imported mysteryphenomenon: Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries is a popular andacclaimedtelevision production produced in Australia that has literally “madewaves” outside of its home country by being imported to over 120differentstations and distributors around the globe. It’s become a huge …
Recommended Oh, the tortured life of Dragon Ball Z on home video.
Rent It Capital ( Le Capital , 2012) is corporate thriller about the newly-crowned head of a leading French bank trying to hold onto his position amidst internal power struggles and a hostile takeover plot by an American hedge fund manager. Despite good intentions, it’s an almost complete misfire from director Costa-Gavras ( Z , Stage of Siege ). The film, based on a novel by St phane Osmont …
Highly Recommended With north of 150 movies under his belt, spanning everything from spy thrillers to nunsploitation to lesbian vampires, how could Jess Franco not direct a slasher flick? Bloody Moon isn’t subtle about it either. I mean, this 1981 slasher opens with a mute killer putting on a cheap, plastic mask — complete with P.O.V
DVD Talk Collector Series Douglas Sirk’s All That Heaven Allows (1955), a slyly subversive romantic melodrama starring Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson, like other Sirk (and Ross Hunter-produced) films from the same era, has a strange history. When it was new, the film was a big, mainstream success though dismissed by critics as a trashy women’s “weapie.” Twenty-five years later it was regarded as …
Rent It There’s just something about murderous little moppets. I don’t know why, but whenever I stumble across a movie with kids savagely slaughtering the adults around them, I have to watch: The Children (both the 1980 and 2008 movies) The Bad Seed , Village of the Damned , Beware! Children at Play , Children of the Corn , The Brood , Mutant , and the list goes on and on and on.
Highly Recommended For many, Ralph Bakshi’s Coonskin is still a lost picture. Upon its release in 1975, picketers from the Congress of Racial Equality, led by Al Sharpton and Elaine Parker, pressured Paramount Pictures to cancel the film’s release, despite the fact that the majority of the group’s members had not seen it. After a screening at the Museum of Modern Art that was crashed by a …
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Oliver Stone appears to have taken personally much of the criticism lobbed at his big-budget 2004 dramatization of Alexander the Great’s life, which underperformed stateside and received some gleefully nasty critical reviews. I saw the film in theaters, and, while heavily flawed, Alexander showed sparks of …
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Perhaps director Jaume Collet-Serra and Liam Neeson will become the next De Niro and Scorsese or Hitchcock and Grant. They are not off to a terrible start: Unknown is a serviceable if imperfect thriller, and the pair again evokes the Master of Suspense with Non-Stop , a claustrophobic thriller set aboard a …
Skip It At a fancy dinner party, the villainous Japanese General Zhao (Waise Lee) confronts a Chinese photographer, jokingly asking if he’s about to assassinate the visiting prince. They both laugh, but at the end of it, Zhao has a gun pointed at the photographer’s stomach.