Highly Recommended The Movie: A lost Ernst Lubitsch spectacle, one of the last two filmsthat he made in Germany before going to Hollywood, has been found,restored,and released on a lovely Blu-ray disc. The film is Das Weib des Pharao or The Loves of Pharaoh as it’s knownin English, is a large, impressive film filled with thousands of extrasandsome very striking sets (including a Sphinx!), but it …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from the 2006 Criterion DVD edition , not the Blu-ray edition under review. Whit Stillman ( Damsels in Distress ) is a magical filmmaker, and a challenging one, too, though in few of the ways that word might usually apply. He presents viewers (or at least, speaking for myself, a viewer like me) with the challenge of stories …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are promotional stills provided by Sony Pictures Classics and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. One of the movie moments that made the deepest impressions on me as a youngster/budding cinephile was the few minutes in Woody Allen’s Crimes and Misdemeanors where Judah (Martin Landau) revisits a scene from his …
Recommended The Series: To start – a recap of the series blatantly swiped from the review of the Season One Blu-ray set: Created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, The Big Bang Theory is based around the exploits of two roommates, Leonard Hofstadter (Johnny Galecki) and Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons), who share an apartment together and work as physicists at the California Institute of Technology …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from Criterion’s 1999 DVD edition and do not reflect the picture quality of the Blu-ray under review. In the films of Alfred Hitchcock, the world of seemingly everyday, normal, ordinary experience merely represents the precarious waters lying just outside a powerful whirlpool of danger, intrigue, and sobering (or even …
Recommended The Movie: Project X is the story of a couple of high school losers composed of Thomas (Thomas Mann), Costa (Oliver Cooper), JB (Jonathan Brown), and Dax (Dax Flame). Ha, I just noticed that everyone used their real names, with exception to Costa.
DVD Talk Collector Series Chronologically speaking, Love and Anarchy ( Film d’amore e d’anarchia, ovvero: stamattina alle 10, in via dei Fiori, nella nota casa di tolleranza… , or “Love and Anarchy or: This Morning at 10, on Via dei Fiori, in a Famous Brothel …” 1973) is the second of three great new Blu-ray releases from Kino Classics
Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less The eye is the window to the story Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: The Criterion Collection, good monologues Likes: Spalding Gray, Steven Soderbergh Dislikes: Hates: Anything bad involving eyes The Movie Thanks to a bootleg VHS tape of Gray’s Anatomy I first discovered Spalding Gray in college, while a performance of his It’s a Slippery Slope at Lincoln Center …
Rent It In a not-so-distant future, rival gangs square off in underground “Beat Beat Revelation” tournaments. JTRO (Jason Trost) and BTRO (Brandon Barrera) are two brothers who routinely wipe the floor with their competition, but their dream team is halved when BTRO has a panic-induced meltdown and dies during a battle with the vile L Dubba E (Lee Valmassey).
Rent It The Movie: The third and final film in Sam Raimi’s trilogy, 2007’s Spider-Man 3 picks up where the second film left off and catches up with Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) as he’s started to build his life back together after things got pretty dismal for him. He’s started to rebuild his relationship with Mary Jane (Kirstin Dunst), the love of his life, and he’s more comfortable in his role …