Highly Recommended Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Originally shot to ride the masked-killer coattails of Halloween , Sean S. Cunningham’s Friday the 13th was a surprise hit for distributor Paramount and sparked a legacy of sequels, merchandise and Camp Crystal L..
Highly Recommended The Reluctant Fundamentalist Blu-ray Review Click onan image to view the Blu-rayscreenshot with 1080p resolution Read the entire review
DVD Talk Collector Series In 10 Words or Less A day in the life of Austin, Texas Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Day in the life stories, quirky films, The Criterion Collection Likes: Richard Linklater, 90s indie cinema, the Austin concept Dislikes: Slackers Hates: Missing bonus content The Movie Richard Linklater’s sprawling journey through the city of Austin, Texas is a paradox, loaded to the brim …
Recommended The Movie: Make no mistake, Andrew Lau’s The Guillotines is an epic tale of honor, brotherhood, sacrifice and betrayal, set in Qing Dynasty era China. There are enough sword fights, chases through crowded streets and sprawling battles to satisfy any action aficionado. However, it’s also a bit confusing and incoherent, and leans a bit too heavily on bathos.
Recommended Though I’ve never been a big fan of hip hop music, I’ve found that movies centered around it are usually enjoyable. 8 Mile for example worked for me even though it was clich d with the whole poor-person-struggling-to-hit-it-big theme, but on the other hand there have been movies like Turn It Up which were extremely forgettable and seemed to just be preying upon their target audiences …
Skip It THE FILM: I can say with some confidence that this isn’t the worst science fiction film Roger Christian has ever directed. That would be Battlefield Earth , the John Travolta/Scientology in space disaster that won four Golden Raspberry Awards and lost Warner Brothers a ton of money
DVD Talk Collector Series Charulata (1964), previously known as The Lonely Wife , is the protagonist of Indian director Satyajit Ray’s straightforward and exquisitely acted humanist drama about a bored, creatively stifled wife whose carefree cousin-in-law inspires her but also threatens her marriage. Adapted from Rabindranath Tagore’s novella The Empty Nest , it’s a simple humanist drama very …
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. Comedy can be serious business, particularly when it is making light of dark subjects. When Mel Brooks made The Producers in 1967, two decades after World War II, he met resistance from people who didn’t think Hitler and his Nazis should be …
Recommended Producer Walter Mirisch’s Midway (1976) cleverly presented a huge scale, all-star (Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum, James Coburn, etc.) war movie on a deceptively modest budget, a fraction of the cost of movies like Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) and A Bridge Too Far (1977). Where those movies recreated epic battles full-scale, with thousands of extras and real military …
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