Rent It The movie’s called Underworld: Awakening and all that, so why does it keep putting me to sleep? That’s kind of the weird thing about this fourth — fourth! — installment in the vampires-in-this-corner-werewolves-in-the-other franchise. If you asked me to rattle off a laundry list of all the stuff Read the entire review
Recommended Reviewed by Glenn Erickson The crows in Dumbo might have been predicting a major theme for the 1940s when they prescribed a new approach to problem solving: “Cology! You know, Psy – cology!” Psychiatry, psychology and related mental manias were made a factor in thrillers, domestic dramas, even westerns. And as film noir favored characters suffering from angst, alienation and …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. I’ve never been entirely convinced that the kind of stubbornly purist realism propounded and practiced by the late John Cassavetes is as pure and effective as the often great , sometimes crackpot Mr. Cassavetes seemed to believe; it’s touching but na ve, it …
Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the film’s promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. Jimmy Testagros (Ron Eldard, Super 8 , TV’s ER ) is having a bad day, and before he sees the next sunrise, it’s going to get a whole lot worse
Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional stills, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Rent It As part of its 100th Anniversary Collector’s Series of Blu-ray titles, Universal is releasing Buck Privates (1941), Abbott & Costello’s first starring feature, and the movie that their fueled their rocket-like ascent to the top of the box office heap in the early-1940s. Spurred by the peacetime draft in the year preceding the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Buck Privates is a truly …
Highly Recommended The Movie: In a straightforward and simple way, the cover of the Pariah Blu-ray case includes the definitions for the word that the film uses as its title. And while the definitions like “outcast” and “rejected member of society” may sound overdramatic at first, one could make the case that such interpretations are not hard to get to, and the film makes a strong case as to why …
Recommended The Show: Â I’ve always been a fan of harem anime.
Highly Recommended Madonna: Truth or Dare Blu-ray Review Madonna is one of the most well lovedmusic acts in the history of pop music. Her albums continue to top thebillboardsales charts with each release
Highly Recommended The Ring Blu-ray Review Have you heard the story of the haunted videotape? Peoplesay that it carries a curse with it. The idea might sound silly to someyoungeraudiences today, but The Ring introduced a terrifying concept: after viewing a video with frighteningandseemingly random images it led to a phone call with an ominous andforebodingvoice on the other end of the line.