Recommended Throughout his career—and increasingly since 1999’s Magnolia —director Paul Thomas Anderson’s films have been hard to pin down. 2007’s striking There Will Be Blood (reviewed on Blu-Ray and DVD ) depicted a self-absorbed man and his pursuit of petroleum and profit
Highly Recommended The Movie: Also known as Army Of One , stunt coordinator Vic Armstrong’s feature film directorial debut is 1993’s Joshua Tree , a starring vehicle for the mighty Dolph Lundgren who made this film right after finishing up Universal Soldier . In the movie, Lundgren plays a truck driver named Wellman Santee. When we meet him, he and his partner Eddie (Ken Foree) are in the middle …
Recommended The Movie: Directed by stuntman Jesse V. Johnson, 2012’s The Package stars ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin as Tommy Wick, an enforcer for a loan shark named Big Doug (Eric Keenleyside). When we first meet him, he and his partner arrive at a bowling alley where they shake down a guy named Luis who owes Doug some money – they’ve already given him an extension, it’s time to pay up
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Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional images and from stills provided by StudioCanal , not the Blu-ray edition under review. The great Mexican filmmaker Luis Bunuel, who had worked in the U.S., Spain, and France as well as in his homeland since the silent era, experienced the last of his multiple transformations/rebirths in France in the ’60s …
Skip It Click on all images in this review for 1080p screenshots. I was intrigued when I saw the trailer for Alex Cross some time ago, but there were two things about it that heightened my skepticism – First, the trailer went to extraordinary lengths to promote style over substance, and second but most certainly not least, Tyler Perry wasn’t reaching out to me in a way th..
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Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials and filmmaker Hal Hartley’s website , not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Highly Recommended A pretty good B-Western featuring John Wayne, very early in his starring career, The New Frontier (1935) breaks no new ground but is well made for its budget level. Indeed, it’s fairly lavish by Republic Pictures’ standards, the studio then just getting started itself, the company having been founded earlier that year when Consolidated Film Laboratories president Herbert J …
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