Recommended The Season: Once time travel and alternate realities enter the equation in a sci-fi TV plotline, you can essentially kiss newcomer audiences goodbye. Those drawn to the show's premise or ensemble understandably become lost while trying to follow the numerous interwoven threads and the impacts made on various permutations of the future; hell, it can become tedious for those who were …
Recommended Funny Lady Blu-ray Review Funny Lady is the follow-up sequel to thecriticallyacclaimed and Academy Award winning Funny Girl (whichintroduced theworld to Barbara Streisand in her debut film performance – which wasultimatelya Oscar winning performance). While the idea of making a sequel wasdebated anddiscussed for several years following the success achieved by FunnyGirl ,star Barbara …
Recommended The Movie: Within the first ten minutes of the James Brown biopic Get On Up , we see the man playing James Brown, wearing makeup and hair enhancements, wander into what appears to be an insurance workshop of sorts, carrying a shotgun and demanding to know who used the toilet in his private office. This eventually leads to a police chase and eventual arrest
Recommended Having just reviewed Kino Lorber's release of that other highly-anticipated revisionist Bicentennial Western from a major director with big stars that proved a colossal critical and commercial disaster, Robert Altman's Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson , I confess to approaching The Missouri Breaks (also 1976) with a lot of trepidation.
Rent It The Movie: Finding Fela is an efficient, albeit messy documentary that should provide a decent introduction to those who have never heard of Fela Kuti or have a basic understanding of his work. I belong to the second category.
Recommended Oh, the tortured life of Dragon Ball Z on home video. Despite being nearly 300 episodes after all was said and done, the original DVD's trickled out with a paltry offering of 3-5 episodes per disc.
Recommended The Movie: The Guest is a flat-footed genre exercise that's as straight and stripped as they come, but it's brimming with enough style, tension, mood, and technical creativity to successfully cover for its stunning lack of originality.
Recommended Please Note: The screen shots accompanying this review come from the DVD edition of Looking: The Complete First Season.
Recommended The Movie: Following the success of their first driving and eating tour film in The Trip , Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon and director Michael Winterbottom all returned for an expected second trip of cars and food, with Italy being the backstop.
Rent It Colin (Idris Elba) has spent the last five years in prison. He was convicted on a manslaughter charge, but Colin is more dangerous than it seems; although the prosecutor couldn't make a case, he is responsible for the death of five other women. He is granted a parole hearing, having been only been convicted of the lesser crime, but one of the parole board is wise to his act, holding the …