Diary of a Chambermaid ( Blu – ray )
Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu – ray edition under review.
March 12, 2013
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Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu – ray edition under review.
Rent It The Movie: Futureworld , Richard T. Heffron’s 1976 sequel to Michael Crichton’s 1973 hit Westworld , was made for AIP and distributed though MGM
DVD Talk Collector Series THE MOVIE: Please Note: The images used here are taken from a previous standard-definition DVD release, not the Blu – ray edition under review. I’ve always considered Badlands , the 1973 debut of writer/director/producer Terrence Malick, to be a little outside the rest of his oeuvre.
Recommended An unusual choice for indie distributor Twilight Time to sublicense from 20th Century-Fox, Pony Soldier (1952) is a once popular, now all but forgotten “Northwestern” starring Tyrone Power.
Highly Recommended Reviewed by Glenn Erickson Zero Dark Thirty is exactly what the ads say it is, a realistic account of the decade-long search for the 21st century’s first global enemy number one, Osama bin Laden. Unlike its Oscar competition Argo , the facts have not been teased in the interest of greater audience involvement; the details of this story are fascinating on their own. Director …
Recommended The second and last Derek Flint movie, In Like Flint (1967) is widely considered inferior even by die-hard fans of the first entry, Our Man Flint (1966). Probably due to my strong dislike of the original movie, my expectations were so low there was nowhere to go but up with the second one. Overall it’s not an improvement, weaker as it is in some ways while a bit better in others, and …
DVD Talk Collector Series THE FILM Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials provided by the film’s distributor, not the Blu – ray edition of the film under review. It’s an epiphany that will come at different points for different viewers of L os Carax’s Holy Motors — that moment amid the film’s mysterious, increasingly bizarre, plot(s) when you realize that what it’s …
Rent It Nicholas and Alexandra Blu – ray Review Nicholas and Alexandra is anambitious, sprawling, and well-meaning motion pictureabout the remaining members of the Romanov family dynasty in Russia.Thecharacters are in the thrust surrounding revolution and changes toRussiangovernment. Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and produced by SamSpiegel,…
Highly Recommended Easter Parade Blu – ray Review Irving Berlin’s EasterParade is one of the greatest film musicals. The film stars JudyGarland,Fred Astaire, Peter Lawford, and Ann Miller and each performer bringssome oftheir greatest work to this “parade” of shows, featuring Academy Awardwinningmusic through adapted music score arranged by Johnny Green and RogerEdens. Easter Parade is one of the …
Highly Recommended THE FILM Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition of the film under review. We’re all fairly well-accustomed by now to movies that openly, self-reflexively acknowledge their own artificiality — so many different filmmakers, from Godard to De Palma to Tarantino , have been doing it for so long, each for their own …