Highly Recommended For many, Ralph Bakshi’s Coonskin is still a lost picture. Upon its release in 1975, picketers from the Congress of Racial Equality, led by Al Sharpton and Elaine Parker, pressured Paramount Pictures to cancel the film’s release, despite the fact that the majority of the group’s members had not seen it. After a screening at the Museum of Modern Art that was crashed by a …
Highly Recommended Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the DVD portion of Ernest & Celestine . The Movie: In the animated charmer Ernest & Celestine , a mismatched pair forge an unlikely friendship as fugitives in a watercolor-dappled world – what’s not to love about that? Arriving on DVD and Blu Ray in both its original French and a good English-language dub, Ernest & Celestine is …
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Perhaps director Jaume Collet-Serra and Liam Neeson will become the next De Niro and Scorsese or Hitchcock and Grant. They are not off to a terrible start: Unknown is a serviceable if imperfect thriller, and the pair again evokes the Master of Suspense with Non-Stop , a claustrophobic thriller set aboard a …
Recommended The Series: The fourth season of Comedy Central’s series Workaholics continues to follow the exploits of Blake Henderson (Blake Anderson), Adam DeMamp (Adam DeVine) and Anders Homvik (Anders Holm), a trio of roommates who work together in a call center for the TelAmeriCorp corporation.
Recommended Click on all images in this review for 1080p screenshtos 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. Complete season sets were finally delivered in the ‘orange brick’ collection, but die-hard fans of the series began a ..
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Director Ralph Nelson’s Fate is the Hunter is based on Ernest K. Gann’s novel of the same name, but the author was so displeased with this film adaptation that he asked to be removed from its credits. Gann’s autobiography recounts his years piloting for American Airlines in the early days of commercial aviation and often reads like a fictional adventure thanks to …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. The third film from prolific director John Milius ( Red Dawn , Conan the Barbarian ) is an exciting Morocco-set adventure in which Sean Connery’s Mulai Ahmed er Raisuli kidnaps an American expat (Candice Bergen) and her two young children (Simon Harrison and Polly Gottesman). Raisuli leads a band of …
Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. There are moments of pure craziness in Sam Peckinpah’s 1974 bloodbath Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia .
Rent It C’mon, you know you had me at “Dutch zombie flick”. [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] The good news…? Aziz (Yahya Gaier) has finally landed a date with Tess (Nadia Poeschm…
Highly Recommended Flying Tigers (1942) is an impressive, still exciting example of early wartime propaganda. John Wayne, in his first war movie, stars as the leader of a squadron of mercenary pilots fighting the Japanese in the days before (and, late in the film, after) the attack on Pearl Harbor in a picture brimming with war movie clich s.