Highly Recommended THE SHOW: ” I had a beautiful dream about a gumball machine. Can I tell you about it? ” Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review
Rent It THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional stills provided by Sony Pictures Classics, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Skip It THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. If you’ve ever been on the fence about having kids, seeing The Babymakers will make up your mind
Skip It You sort of have to hand it to Sony: against all odds, they managed to turn Starship Troopers — which only earned $120m worldwide against a $100m budget — into a surprisingly valuable franchise. First, there was the seemingly popular animated TV series “Roughnecks,” followed by two live-action direct-to-video sequels. Last year, Sony announced a remake was also in the works, but that …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from stills and other promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. It has an abandoned battleship, not a locomotive, as its perpetually in-motion, out-of-control set, but Buster Keaton’s 1924 feature The Navigator — the last occasion on which he shared directing credit before going full auteur for the …
Highly Recommended My “memories” of Quadrophenia are by association only. I had never seen the movie until this Blu-ray release from The Criterion Collection, but I had been aware of it – perhaps excessively so – thanks to the neo-Mods of my teenage years. This was in the early 1990s, and although it would be easy enough to label these neo-Mods as misguided poseurs (which they most certainly …
DVD Talk Collector Series THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. “Gee, it’s funny how lonesome a fella can be, especially with a million people around him.” The new Criterion Blu-ray edition of Paul Fejos’s splendiferous 1928 color/B&W, silent/talkie Hollywood hybrid Lonesome is the kind of thing that makes you …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Highly Recommended It’s hard to watch a movie like Harvey (1950) without a big smile on your face, or at least a little smirk. Adapted from the successful play by Mary Chase, this charming comedy follows the amiable Elwood P