Skip It Before the wide adoption of DVD and Blu-Ray, it seemed like there was a sense that other countries were making much better movies than America. A Run Lola Run here, an Oldboy there, and suddenly foreign film became a movie-geek magnet
Recommended The Movie: Directed by Peter Chan in 2011, Dragon (retitled for release in North America by the Weinsteins for some reason, the original title was Wu-Xia ) stars Donnie Yen as a man named Liu Jin-xi. He’s lived in the same small town for about ten years now, having married a local single mother named Ayu (Tang Wei) and set up shop in town making paper. Together he and his wife are …
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu – ray edition under review. Critics are fond of declaring things like, “It’s the best time I had at the movies all year!” Only, when we do, it’s not supposed to be about a movie that is over 70 years old.
Rent It Yann Arthus-Bertrand and Michael Pitiot’s Planet Ocean (2012), like many eco-minded documentaries, wants to captivate our senses while attempting to get its message across.
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu – ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. After a violent confrontation with his wife’s lover, Paris attorney Paul Exben becomes a chameleon, slinking through the lives of others while calculating his future. This French thriller, directed by Eric Lartigau, is less suspenseful than haunting, and Romain Duris gives Exben a wide-eyed alertness seemingly …
Rent It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu – ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. A sequel to the 2009 slasher The Collector wasn’t exactly a given, though that film tripled its $3 million budget at the box office.
Rent It In Hong Kong, where non-organized prostitution is already legal, many women further blur the line by offering their services for Paid Dates, in which they have the freedom to choose who they go out with, what they do, and whether or not they’ll sleep with their clients. Girl$ follows four women involved in the Paid Date game: Lin (Una Lin), a veteran employee who feels she has a special …
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Highly Recommended THE FILM Please Note: The images used here are taken from the film’s 2001 DVD release , not the Blu – ray edition of the film under review. Like most films by Brian De Palma ( Dressed to Kill , Blow Out ), 1978’s The Fury is of dubious genre: Is it a horror film, with its eerie supernatural story elements
Rent It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu – ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Catherine Hardwicke is a polarizing director, and her projects are all over the map.