Highly Recommended If you’ve been perusing the DVD and Blu – ray sections of your local retailers this year, then you’ve undoubtedly seen the banner atop many a disc that celebrates 100 years of filmmaking for Universal Studios.
Rent It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu – ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Oliver Stone is an emotive, visual filmmaker known to overindulge in pulpy fiction to mixed results. Stone’s best films, like Platoon and Wall Street , are brash and probing, while his duds, like Alexander , are bloated and overwrought.
Highly Recommended *CLICK on ALL images in this review for high resolution screenshots I’m a fan of musicals, but they need to be more than mere tales spun by musical notes. There needs to be some passion in the storytelling, or at least a charismatic cast that makes the production worthwhile. Nowadays, the plot is pushed aside in order to make way for spectacle.
DVD Talk Collector Series THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from a prior standard-definition DVD release, not the Blu-ray edition under review. By 1950, the tirelessly skeptical and sardonic Billy Wilder was already much more than qualified to make a picture about Hollywood; over the preceding decade, the Austrian-born director (who had fled Europe for Hollywood in the wake …
Highly Recommended In your faaaace ! Cartoon Network and Warner Bros. piss off more goofs who can’t just enjoy a simple DVD full of toons with the release of Regular Show: The Best DVD in the World* (*at this moment in time) , a single-disc, 16-episode collection of Cartoon Network ‘s hit Monday night show (and my current favorite toon on television). Created by J
Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the bonus DVD included in this combo, not the Blu-ray edition under review. When People Like Us opens, we see Chris Pine performing in a role he seems born to play: a salesman.
Rent It [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] “You know how it is when you eat Chinese! Half an hour later, you’re hungry again!” Yeah, I know, and that Thursday-night-on-TBS sense of humor is pretty much wh…
Recommended The Show: This is a 2011 stage performance of Stephen Sondheim’s musical comedy, which had a brief run in movie theaters last year and has now been issued on Blu-Ray disc from Image Entertainment. Company premiered in 1970 on Broadway with a cast album released shortly after. Since then it has had several revivals, including one previous to this production in 2006 which is also …
Recommended In 10 Words or Less Bette Midler makes half a great Lifetime movie Blu-Ray DVD Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Paul F. Tompkins as Garry Marshall Likes: Bette Midler Dislikes: Barbara Hershey Hates: Tear-jerker lady movies The Movie When I reviewed the special edition DVD of Beaches back in 2005, I had just started a new job, I was just under a year away from becoming a father, and my life …
Highly Recommended Amazing Spider-Man Blu-ray Review Click onimage to view Blu-ray screenshot with1080p Resolution Is TheAmazing Spi… Read the entire review