DVD Talk Collector Series Some movies get a bum rap. Such is the case of Raise the Titanic (1980), a critical flop and, more importantly, a colossal commercial failure with $7 million in U.S. and Canadian earnings against a $40 million negative cost
Highly Recommended THE SERIES: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Subtle it is not, but Kevin Williamson’s The Following is crackling entertainment buoyed by strong performances from Kevin Bacon, as an FBI agent with emotional baggage, and James Purefoy, as a cunning serial killer and cult leader on the run.
Recommended Machete Kills – Blu-ray Review Remember that little film called Grindhouse ?The one that united longtime filmmaking friends Robert Rodriguez andQuentin Tarantino with a massive double-feature bill that was releasedinto theaters with a two-for-the-price-of-one experience rolled in withfake-trailers and both Rodriguez’s PlanetTerror and Tarantino’s DeathProof ? So do I. It …
Highly Recommended So, I’m looking down at the notes I jotted down while mainlining the fourth season of Archer on Blu-ray. Extended dog birthday flashback. Prehensile tail riff
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. “You are she who is not, I am he who is. ” If ever a film embodied a state of mind, it would be Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1983 release, Nostalghia .
Recommended You don’t have to be staring down retirement to enjoy Jon Turtletaub’s Last Vegas (2013), especially if you’re a fan of the talent involved. Its most notable strength is the participation of Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline as the center of its ensemble cast; though none of this quartet had ever worked with one another, they carry the weight of this …
Rent It What should’ve been a nice date night for Robert Dorian (Dylan McDermott) just took a turn for the worse.
Highly Recommended It’s a shame that Jesse James (1939), Fox’s big Technicolor Western starring Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, and Randolph Scott, is remembered for its historical inaccuracies and for one notorious scene of alleged animal abuse than for the movie itself. That’s because the movie, for the most part, is excellent, in some respects way ahead of its time
DVD Talk Collector Series Conventional wisdom used to be that the only good Spaghetti Westerns were the five directed by Sergio Leone: Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966), Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), and Duck, You Sucker! (1971). But over the last several decades, film historians including Sir Christopher Frayling began …
Recommended The Movie: For whatever reason there seems to be a fascination with Appalachia, or on a broader level the flyover country of between both American coasts, which produces fascinating results in entertainment. Whether it is A Simple Plan in past years or presently on television in Justified , the slang, customs and practices of folks in this culture onto itself remains curious through …