Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The screen shots used here are from the 2007 DVD edition, not the Blu-ray under review. Monte Hellman’s dazed, stoically gorgeous 1971 film Two-Lane Blacktop is another one of those nuggets from the storied American cinema of the ’70s that easily proves what’s by now a commonplace among movie buffs — that it was a time when the frantic desperation of …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. The easy chemistry between Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pe a draws you into the lives of their characters – two LAPD officers who work a particularly rough part of South Central Los Angeles – and sells the gritty reality of David Ayer’s End of Watch , a particularly resonant cop drama that makes first …
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Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. A few years after Wes Craven directed The Last House on the Left and The Hills Have Eyes but before his big breakout, A Nightmare on Elm Street , he made Deadly Blessing , which is more interesting as a precursor of what’s to come than an effective horror …
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Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. You’d be forgiven for forgetting Resident Evil: Retribution’s super generic subtitle, as it may as well be called “This Year’s Resident Evil 3D.” This is the fifth Milla Jovovich-lead film in the franchise, and directly follows the events of last year’s Resident Evil: Afterlife , which marked the return of …
Skip It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Although it appears to be an honest effort and a carefully planned directorial debut for Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal, The Words is much less interesting than it realizes.
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Trailer parks, all-night diners and strip clubs enclose the action in William Friedkin’s Killer Joe , a dark , disturbing comedy that pulls no punches with its blunt, shortsighted characters and brutal violence
Highly Recommended THE PROGRAM: Please Note: The images used here are from promotional materials provided by Arte Live Web and public-domain photos of St. Thomas Church, Leipzig , and Haussmann ‘s portrait of Bach; they are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. In the interest of being upfront before indulging in my superlative-laden recommendation of the new Blu-ray version of Bach’s …