DVD Talk Collector Series In 10 Words or Less Harold LLoyd in one of the best silent comedies ever Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Classic comedies Likes: Harold Lloyd, good slapstick Dislikes: Most silent films Hates: Most modern slapstick The Movie If you ask most film fans who the biggest name in comedy of the silent-film era, most will likely say either Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton. Either name …
Recommended With next year’s Fury Road just around the corner, it’s a good time to revisit George Miller’s original Mad Max trilogy. The first two installments have been available on Blu-ray for several years, while the third adventure makes its debut as part of this (almost) 35th Anniversary collection. It’s not a definitive effort by any stretch, but this isn’t a cheap repackaging job either …
Skip It Note: images do not reflect the contents of the Blowing Wild Blu-Ray. The Movie: Over the past couple of years, Olive Films has been the classic film lover’s best friend. They’ve already reissued several lesser-known but generally worthwhile films from the archives of Paramount and Republic, along with independent ventures such as the John Garfield boxing flick Body and Soul .
Highly Recommended The Movie: Â At an age when most actors had long since stopped takingroles (or more likely, the phone had stopped ringing) Cary Grant wasstill making superbfilms. Â After making the excellentthriller Charade , Grant went to workon the WWII light comedy, Father Goose ,his second to last movie
Recommended Geez! Disney sure has been on a tear recently.
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Recommended The Movie: The 1933 romantic comedy Perfect Understanding , newly released on Blu Ray by the Cohen Film Collection, might best be described as a vanity project. Gloria Swanson performed double duty as actress and producer with this luxurious British production, resulting in an enjoyable yet quirky experiment. Swanson had a lot riding on Perfect Understanding .
Highly Recommended THE FILM Please Note: The images used here are from promotional materials and stills provided by The Criterion Collection , not the current Blu-ray edition under review. If one were forced (against one’s will, it would have to be) to pick and choose and split hairs among the near-uniformly excellent, inspired, and distinctive-visioned films of English writer-director Mike …
Highly Recommended The Movie: Best known because it was banned by the BBC before it was supposed to be aired in 1977, Alan Clarke’s Scum holds up well despite all the hype around this project, one which actually started life as a made for TV movie. In the lead, Ray Winstone plays Carlin, a thug imprisoned for his wrongdoings on the outside. He’s recently been transferred to Borstel, a youth …
Highly Recommended The Film: Hayao Miyazaki didn’t have a grand future in mind when he originally created Totoro, one of plush toys, hash-tags , and enduring cameo appearances . He didn’t even really have a movie in his sights when he began the initial creative process: My Neighbor Totoro started out as a children’s book, a straightforward departure for the filmmaker after Nausicaa of the Valley …