Skip It THE FILM Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials provided by Music Box Films and do not directly reflect the picture quality of the Blu-ray edition under review. A few years back, there was a glossy, nasty little Joel Schumacher picture, 8mm , that, while just the kind of tawdry, rancid experience one had by then come to expect from Schumacher, at least had …
Skip It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. These British crime thrillers are beginning to feel like one long, disjointed movie
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. Marilyn Monroe was rarely cast as anything but the sympathetic or comedic love interest, but based on the evidence in Niagara , she could have had a whole other career as a femme fatale. In fact, her performance here stands alongside …
Highly Recommended Endeavor (2012-present) has mighty big shoes to fill. The very idea of a prequel series to the great Inspector Morse , the 1987-2000 collection of television movies starring John Thaw rank among the most intelligent and fascinating detective dramas ever done
Recommended THE SERIES: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution.
Recommended The Film: Depicting the cutthroat, knee-jerk politics involved in the hierarchy of organized crime has long been a staple in the crime-thriller genre, but few have the gusto to focus on the hard psychology of the players involved, though, whether it’s of the high-profile criminals or the undercover cops trapped in their web. That seems like ideal territory for Korean writer/director …
Skip It THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. As a middle-aged failure in the writing biz, you’d think I’d appreciate the story of a middle-aged has-been author like some kind of fairy tale, the way a peasant boy dreams of one day being Prince Charming.
Highly Recommended George Harrison: “The next [movie of ours] should be completely different. We start shooting it in February.
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. Erich von Stroheim’s 1922 silent drama Foolish Wives is a masterful study of emotional manipulation. Even at its butchered length–reconstructed here to get us to 143 minutes, which is still shorter than the director’s cut and the original …
Highly Recommended The Incredible Melting Man comes out on Blu-ray in a couple of weeks, and for your $19.97, you get one (1) and only one incredible melting man.