Rent It The Movie: Surprisingly enough, this 1955 western was directed by none other than William Castle, the man better known for his fantastic gimmicky horror pictures like The Tingler , 13 Ghosts and The House On Haunted Hill to name just a few. On top of that, it stars Glenn Ford and Cesar Romero and, unlike most westerns, it’s set in South America (Brazil to be specific). You’d think all of …
Recommended The Movie: Directed by Sebasti n Cordero, 2013’s Europa Report isn’t going to appeal to everyone. It’s a slow movie and much like 2001: A Space Odyssey it sometimes get self-indulgent not because it betters the story to do so, but because it can. Add to that the fact that the movie is basically a found footage’ style narrative, something that seems to turn a lot of viewers off simply …
DVD Talk Collector Series Note : For whatever reason, Universal Pictures has not yet set a US release date for Fast & Furious 6 . This is a review of the UK’s disc, which is completely region free and will play without any problems in a US Blu-Ray player. In 2009, after the box office fizzle of Tokyo Drift , Fast & Furious made a surprise bid to bring the series back from the edge of DTV by …
Recommended “Space Junk,” made for IMAX theatres, presents us with a growing problem that hasn’t gotten a lot of attention (although it was the subject of an early song by Devo with the same name but not included here): Just what happens to satellites orbiting the Earth after they’ve outlived their usefulness? It turns out that many of them just stay there, some for several decades after they’ve …
Highly Recommended Homeland Season 2 Blu-ray Review Click onan image to view the Blu-ray screenshotwith 1080p resolution Read the entire review
DVD Talk Collector Series THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Horror fans rejoice, Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th is here to scratch your itch for behind-the-scenes footage, production secrets and Friday lore.
Recommended A minor but reasonably entertaining action-thriller, Escape from Zahrain (1962) is a quirky little picture. Its small cast is a strange mix of actors while its screenplay is unusually unambitious for producer-director Ronald Neame, who had just made two outstanding British features, The Horse’s Mouth (1958) and especially Tunes of Glory (1960), Neame’s masterpiece.
Highly Recommended The Blu-ray cover art touts The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh as “The Original Classic,” an ironic proclamation considering that this 1977 animated feature is actually a compilation of three earlier featurettes with original bridging material and a new ending. Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966, originally shown with The Ugly Dachshund ) came first, followed by …
Recommended The Movies: The Amityville Horror , directed by Stuart Rosenberg for the late, lamented AIP and released through MGM, is pretty well established as one of the more popular seventies supernatural films and stands as a picture with a sizeable fan base. It did well enough to inspire quite a few sequels, all of which vary pretty widely in terms of quality
Recommended The Movie: In retrospect, seeing the trailer for Crash ahead of the Disconnect Blu-ray was something that may have clued me in to what the latter was going to be about. And in what could serve as a fitting bookend to the former, the latter was an intriguing prospect, with several interwoven storylines and familiar faces in them to help move things along