Highly Recommended The Film: At the beginning of City of God , the streets of Brazil — the winding slums, not the picturesque landscapes adorning postcards — come alive through sharpening knives, drum-heavy percussion music, and a pack of children chasing a chicken. Then, the relative normalcy stops: a camera-carrying high-schooler, Rocket, freezes when he comes face-to-face with teenage thugs …
Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from an earlier standard-definition DVD, not the Blu-ray edition under review. I’m starting to feel a surge of ’90s nostalgia lately, which is something I thought I’d never say. Though, to be fair, it’s really only for the cinema of the decade, and mainly due to the recent spate of Miramax films making their way to Blu …
Rent It “Now look — you meet an old lesbian, huh? And a friend of yours gets a headache. All of a sudden, it’s sorcery and witches!” Part of what I love so much about Blue Underground is how wildly unpredictable their release slate can be.
Rent It Time is money. No, really! I mean that totally literally, and if you somehow manage to miss that pun the first time through, In Time will help you out by repeating it over and over and over and over and over and over [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] … Read the entire review
Recommended THE FILM: By dialing back the weed humor and bringing the action home for the holidays, A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas earns fresh laughs despite its string-of-high jinks story. Stoners need not worry; pot still plays a central role in the plot, as does cocaine and a waffle-making robot, but the follow up to Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle and Harold & Kumar Escape from …
Recommended The Movie: Co-written and co-directed by Tak Sakaguchi and Yudai Yamaguchi, the former probably best known to western audiences as the star of Versus and Battlefield Baseball , Nikkatsu imprint Sushi Typhoon’s latest offering is Yakuza Weapon .
Highly Recommended Cold Mountain BD Review v:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}o:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}w:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}.shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE Read the entire review
Skip It THE MOVIE: Please Note: The images used here are from promotional materials and are not taken from the Blu-Ray edition under review. Imagine a version of Goodfellas where a hired scissor man took Scorsese’s film back into the editing bay to make it less arty and more commercial.
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are promotional stills and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. What a fitting, masterful close to an illustrious, impassioned, and cheeky career is the late Ra l Ruiz’s last film, Mysteries of Lisbon ! The expatriate Chilean filmmaker, who left his homeland after the fascist Pinochet coup in 1973 and worked in Europe …
Recommended THE MOVIE: Hmmm, I wonder what could have prompted HBO Home Video to upgrade their 1995 TV movie The Tuskegee Airmen for a Blu-ray release? Looking at their slate for January, we see that it’s being accompanied by the new performance film Thurgood (starring Airmen ‘s Laurence Fishburne) and their acclaimed 1991 film The Josephine Baker Story ; some kind of pre-Black History Month …