Recommended Note: Before we get started, I’d like to say, I don’t know if I’m using appropriate terms for describing the Special Olympians in this film, but I tried to avoid the obviously insulting ones (except for the Tropic Thunder reference in the opening section and any quotes from the film.) I’m not defending any mistakes I make. I’m just trying to save you an email by letting you know I’m …
Rent It The Film: With the recent surge of films surrounding the open wheel Formula 1 circuit, there have been smaller, quieter brothers within the genre that have been released, examining a variety of racing tournaments. Admittedly, Snake & Mongoose had a familiar name as one of the areas of focus, but it shed light on something I was not aware of.
Highly Recommended The Movie: Released in 1955, The Man from Laramie is a masterful conclusion to a run of five “psychological” Westerns starring James Stewart and directed by Anthony Mann, which began with 1950’s similarly excellent Winchester ’73 .
Recommended Oh, the tortured life of Dragon Ball Z on home video.
Rent It Capital ( Le Capital , 2012) is corporate thriller about the newly-crowned head of a leading French bank trying to hold onto his position amidst internal power struggles and a hostile takeover plot by an American hedge fund manager. Despite good intentions, it’s an almost complete misfire from director Costa-Gavras ( Z , Stage of Siege ). The film, based on a novel by St phane Osmont …
Highly Recommended With north of 150 movies under his belt, spanning everything from spy thrillers to nunsploitation to lesbian vampires, how could Jess Franco not direct a slasher flick? Bloody Moon isn’t subtle about it either. I mean, this 1981 slasher opens with a mute killer putting on a cheap, plastic mask — complete with P.O.V
DVD Talk Collector Series Douglas Sirk’s All That Heaven Allows (1955), a slyly subversive romantic melodrama starring Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson, like other Sirk (and Ross Hunter-produced) films from the same era, has a strange history. When it was new, the film was a big, mainstream success though dismissed by critics as a trashy women’s “weapie.” Twenty-five years later it was regarded as …
Rent It THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. Noted character actor David Morse ( Treme ) takes center-stage in the psychological police drama McCanick .
Highly Recommended Note : Although screencaps can only tell so much of the story, click any capture (taken straight from the disc) in this review to expand the image to full size. Also, if you’re curious as to why DVDTalk is reviewing this title a second time, skip to the “The Blu-Ray” section of this review for an explanation.
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