Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less The strange, tragic relationship between wrestling and John du Pont Reviewer's Bias* Loves: Mark Ruffalo, Bennett Miller Likes: Channing Tatum, Steve Carell, wrestling (not the pro kind) Dislikes: Many biopics Hates: When money protects the guilty The Movie Despite getting something of a late start on his directing career, Bennett Miller has been in no rush …
DVD Talk Collector Series The Connection (1961) is a historically significant if very stagey and virtually unreleased feature directed and edited by independent experimental filmmaker Shirley Clarke (1919-1997). An adaptation of Jack Gelber's 1959 Obie-winning play, the entire story takes place in a grungy New York loft – there are no exteriors and no other sets – where junkies, including jazz …
Highly Recommended The Movie: 1975's Love and Death is probably the oddest film of Woody Allen's “early funny ones,” but, pound for pound, it is also probably the funniest. Set in Russia during the Napoleonic Wars, Love and Death features a smorgasbord of smarty-pants riffs on philosophy, literature, and cinema, Marxian (as in Groucho) double-talk, and slapstick setpieces that rival the work of …
Rent It The Movie: Albert Pyun is best known for directing action and sci-fi pictures like Cyborg with Jean Claude Van Damme but in 1986 he made Dangerously Close , a strange tale of youth gone wild. It's a strange film to be sure, one that seems far more concerned with technique and style than with narrative substance, but it's an interesting film to revisit almost thirty years after it debuted …
Recommended The Movie: Robert Englund has had a storied career in film, and has the star power still to carry a movie, in horror circles at least. So it's too bad that one of his recent ventures, Fear Clinic , is only a fair horror film. Englund deserves greatness.
Recommended NOTE: This Blu-ray is available exclusively at Best Buy until May 5th, but can be pre-ordered at Amazon and other outlets. Based on George Jonas' 1984 book Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team (much like the 1986 made-for-TV movie Sword of Gideon ), Steven Spielberg's Munich (2005) is a fictional account of the…
Highly Recommended The Movies: Before developing The Walking Dead into successful TV show and after co-writing A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors , Frank Darabont enjoyed a career as the prestigious writer/director of Stephen King dramas, as well as the director of a Frank Capra send-off that bombed at the box office. But hey, being the talent behind the #1 movie on IMDB pretty much …
Highly Recommended Nurse Jackie returns for its sixth and penultimate season. (The seventh and final season premieres on April 12th
Highly Recommended Roger Corman's The Wild Angels (1966) is the seminal 60s counterculture movie.