Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Jeremy Gardner's post-apocalyptic The Battery is a good movie without qualifiers, but it is a pretty great movie when you consider the budget is only $6,000.
Highly Recommended The Show: The Comedy Central sketch show Key & Peele is heading into its triumphant fourth season, and so (much more quickly than they did with seasons 1 & 2 ) the cable network has put out another spotless-looking Blu-ray for the show's excellent 13-episode third season. Though the package is a little lighter on bonus features than previous releases, the main episodes are …
Recommended Before 1950, nearly all of the best Westerns were in black-and-white. Partly this was the law of averages, as the vast majority of pre-1950 Westerns were produced in black-and-white to begin with. But other than a few notable exceptions (John Ford's She Wore a Yellow Ribbon , for instance), pre-1950 Technicolor Westerns generally played it safe.
Recommended Looking at the Blu-ray cover for Last Passenger , one might feel bad for Dougray Scott.
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the standard-definition DVD included in the retail package, not the Blu-ray edition under review. It's wonderful how a good movie can sometimes turn a night around. I have to remind myself of that sometimes.
Skip It The Movie: Did you ever play this game with your friends as a child? You and your buddies sit around in a circle, each of you write a paragraph of a short story, fold it, then another kid writes the next paragraph without seeing what comes before it.
DVD Talk Collector Series Man Hunt (1941) is a terrific, tense thriller directed by Fritz Lang and released about six months prior to America's entry into the Second World War. That made it one of a handful of anti-Nazi Hollywood movies ( Confessions of a Nazi Spy , Foreign Correspondent , and A Yank in the R.A.F.
Recommended Gangster Nick (Simon Oakland), referring to Toby's (Elvis Presley) na vet : “Is he kidding?” Gangster Carmine (Jack Kruschen), exasperated : “I just don't know anymore.” A lesser Elvis movie that breaks away somewhat from the usual formula, Follow That Dream (1962) unwisely casts The King as a painfully stupid country bumpkin along the lines of Gomer Pyle.
DVD Talk Collector Series Any good film critic/historian worth his salt tries to experience as many movies of all kinds as humanly possible. One simply can't write intelligently about Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976) without an awareness of the influences of John Ford's seminal John Wayne Western The Searchers (1956), for instance, just as The Right Stuff (1983) is essentially a brilliant …
Skip It THE MOVIE: Oh, American history! So full of passion, intrigue, and even more passion. What a soap opera you are! How many crises were solved with longing looks across wooden tables