Recommended Just a few short weeks after signing the lease on their dream apartment in New York City, George (Paul Rudd) and Linda (Jennifer Aniston) are forced to leave it behind when George’s company is raided by the FBI and HBO decides to pass on Linda’s latest passion project (a documentary about penguins suffering from testicular cancer). Professionally adrift and financially unstable, it …
Recommended “Let’s kick some ass.” That’s preeeeeeeetty much the plot summary for Red Scorpion right there too. Red Scorpion , filmed after that one-two punch of Rocky IV and Masters of the Universe , stars Dolph Lundgren as Soviet Spetsnaz soldier Read the entire review
Recommended As Clint Eastwood movies go, Blood Work (2002) is decidedly minor.
Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: All of the images used here are from the accompanying standard-definition DVD and are not taken from the Blu-ray under review.
Recommended In 10 Words or Less Tosh.0 on Blu-Ray is overkill Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Funny internet clips Likes: Daniel Tosh, Tosh.0 , Web Soup Dislikes: Gross-out comedy, viewer videos Hates: Clip-show bits The Show Once upon a time, there were TV shows hosted by comedians that featured internet content as far as the eye could see, with Web Junk 20 , Web Soup and Tosh.0 .
DVD Talk Collector Series THE FILM: Please Note: All of the images used here are from promotional materials and are not taken from the Blu-ray under review. Astutely predicting the outcry that would surely erupt from various Charlie Chaplin purists and completists were they to have put out only one Gold Rush or the other, Criterion is now releasing the 1925 classic as what amounts to one Blu-ray …
Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are promotional and are not taken from the Blu-ray under review. There’s no getting around the fact that P. David Ebersole’s Hit So Hard , a documentary on Patty Schemel, former drummer for the band Hole, is inherently going to have very different levels of appeal based on factors unrelated to how good and interesting the film is (and this …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are promotional and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. Thanks to The Criterion Collection, summer 2012 is, aptly , Bergman season: In concurrence with their release of the Swedish master’s 1953 turning-point film Summer with Monika , they’re also making available an earlier sea-and-sun youthful-romance reverie, his …
Highly Recommended Certified Copy recreates a world that, down to the most minute detail, is entrancingly, enthrallingly real until it’s not. Such a dramatic statement likely brings to mind the ambitious sort of science fiction that encourages viewers to question everything in front of them.
Highly Recommended Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s seven-part, 14-hour The War (2007) attempts to document the American perspective of World War II in the same signature style Burns (and sometimes Novick) has brought to other subjects, like Jazz (2001), Baseball (1994/2010) and, most famously, The Civil War (1990). In attempting to distinguish itself from other made-for-television documentaries …