Rent It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Nicolas Winding Refn and Ryan Gosling re-team for Only God Forgives , a beautifully shot, vacuous and violent film about a drug dealer avenging his brother’s murder
Rent It THE FILM: The United States government has nearly eliminated crime and unemployment by implementing an annual 12-hour “purge,” during which time all crime is legal. This is a ridiculous yet intriguing premise for a film, and it begs a number of questions about human nature and social interaction.
Recommended The Movie: Directed by Chad Crawford Kinkle, 2013’s Jug Face is a twisted tale of backwoods horror spun through a narrative that blends the worst of superstition and religion with a sort of inbred hillbilly-ish setting to create something unexpectedly unique. If you look at the cover art, it looks like maybe this is some sort of possession movie, they seem semi-popular these days …
Rent It The Movie: Danish thriller A Hijacking arrives on Blu Ray closely aligned with the theatrical release of Tom Hanks’ docudrama Captain Phillips . Coincidence? Perhaps Magnolia was hoping to capitalize on some of the hype from the Hanks film, but this one presents a darker, less dynamic take on the rash of ocean hijackings off the coast of Somalia soaking up the headlines in recent years …
Rent It The front cover’s tagline is “He’s feeling renewed.” Actually, “Anger Management” already had a deal from the get-go to have about 100 episodes produced, so that feeling isn’t such a big deal. Anyways, Charlie Sheen’s sitcom has had its second season released on Blu-Ray. A brief note at the end of each episode states that it is based on the movie of the same name, but does not show any …
Highly Recommended The Movies: One of the most popular and enduring actors to ever specialize in horror films, Vincent Price may be gone but his legacy lives on. Shout! Factory, through their Scream Factory horror movie specialty sub-label, have gathered together six of his finest films and issued them together in a special edition Blu-ray boxed set. Note, the movies in the set are not presented …
DVD Talk Collector Series Big Parade TheMovie: King Vidor’s The Big Parade is one of the successful and influential movies from the silent era andit’s astounding that it took over a decade and a half to release thefilm on DVD. Good things come to those who wait as WarnerBrothers has finally rectified that situation with a pristine lookingBlu-ray (also available on DVD) that has a couple of …
Highly Recommended Friends have been raving to me about Downton Abbey (2010-present), the British (and partly American-financed) television drama contrasting the lives upper- and servant-class residents of a large manor house in post-Edwardian England. I had been meaning to catch up with it eventually and gradually but, perfect timing, along comes PBS’s release of Downton Abbey: Seasons 1, 2 & 3 …
Highly Recommended Nevermind how many angels can dance on the head of a pin; how many soldiers can you fit on the flipside of a bottle cap? Quite a lot, as it turns out
Recommended THE FILM: While Curse of Chucky shares a director – Don Mancini – with Seed of Chucky , the previous sequel in the Child’s Play series, it mostly drops the black humor of that film in favor of returning to the franchise’s horror roots. This direct-to-video sequel is actually much better than expected, and it moves the story forward in an interesting way. Chucky (voiced by Brad Dourif …