Highly Recommended The House of Mouse has a long and lucrative history of whitewashing source material for family consumption…but hey, it’s resulted in a lot of top-notch animated classics.
DVD Talk Collector Series The Movie: Years of parody and homage and outright emulation have done little to dim the magnificence of Fran ois Truffaut’s third feature film, Jules and Jim .
Recommended Historical war films aren’t usually my cup of tea, unless they cover events that haven’t been done to death already. Cy Endfield’s Zulu (1964) fits the bill by dropping us smack in the beginning of the Anglo-Zulu War circa January 1879, as we see a conflict between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom develops in south-eastern Africa. In particular, Zulu recounts the Battle of …
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. A film about Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone escaping a maximum-security prison together is either going to be something you want to see or it isn’t. Escape Plan slid under the radar last fall and seemed like the icing on a particularly bad year for the indestructible duo following their …
Highly Recommended The Movie: Even though About Time ‘s key conceit is that lanky ginger Tim (Domhnall Gleeson, Brendan’s boy) has inherited from his father (the perpetually awesome Bill Nighy) the ability to travel back in time to previously lived moments in his life and change them as he sees fit, writer-director Richard Curtis ( Love Actually , Notting Hill ) is not all that interested in …
Skip It Clyde Barrow (Emile Hirsch) is a young troublemaker blessed with a “second sight” — an ability to see his own future. Bonnie Parker (Holliday Grainger) is a very young girl with dreams of Hollywood stardom
Highly Recommended Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. The TV Series: Of all the filmed versions of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice , the 1995 BBC-A&E television production seems to be the one that people (especially women) keep returning to again and again. Why is that?
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Highly Recommended Across television and film, there are at least 32 adaptations of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr
Rent It Carrie Blu-ray Review Carrie isthelatest in a long running string of remakes of much-beloved films in thehorrorgenre that includes far too many films to even list or begin to count.Thistime around, the director is Kimberly Peirce ( Boys Don’tCry, Stop-Loss ) and the star is the up-and-comer ChloëGrace Moretz ( Hugo , Let Me In , Kick Ass ) in the role of Carrie White. The film …