Highly Recommended The Movie: Growing up in a household with one parent who was an unabashed John Wayne fan, I grew to appreciate his work but in different ways. I have grown to realize that Wayne was a bit of an underrated actor in his time, and with Red River this was one of (if not) his first turn from preconceived notions on his character and how he turns from upstanding protagonist to a …
Rent It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. The opening minutes of The Bridges of Madison County , in which two adult siblings react to the reading of their mother’s will, are terrible.
Recommended Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the DVD portion of Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron . The Movie: Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron is a movie about a headstrong horse who’ll never, ever be tamed – he’s “come into this world, wild and free,” galloping through the American West “wild and untamed” – and if anyone tries to reign him in, he’s “never gonna give in” (Bryan …
Skip It Less than a year ago, Acorn collected the first two “Jack Irish” telemovies into a Blu-Ray set. The films, based on the books by author Peter Temple, followed Irish (Guy Pearce) as he slowly shifts from being a fancy criminal attorney to being a private investigator, while recovering from the murder of his wife, Isabel.
Highly Recommended The Movie: Written and directed by Robert Hiltzik, 1983’s Sleepaway Camp could have very easily been lost in the crowd of eighties slasher films had it not been for the film’s infamous shock ending, one that’s gone down in history, and rightly so. We won’t spoil it here but this is really one of those movies where you’re not going to see it coming and a picture which proves …
Recommended [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] “I live my life a quarter-mile at a time.” “That is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.” Turns out that Neal H. Moritz really liked raking in millions and … Read the entire review
DVD Talk Collector Series Once Blu-ray Review Therearesometimes little films that come along that find ways to surprise andamaze inalmost every way imaginable.
Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. Korean rap star Choi Seung-hyun, a.k.a. T.O.P., stars in the action thriller Commitment as Myung-hoon, a North Korean teenager pulled into the secret service as trade for keeping his young sister alive
Recommended The cover insists that Steven Spielberg’s Amistad (1997) is “absolutely unforgettable”, but it’s rarely listed alongside the director’s very best achievements. This adaptation of Howard Jones’ Mutiny on The Amistad is, in turn, based on the events surrounding a mid-19th century Supreme Court case regarding “property ownership”.
Recommended The Movie: Originally issued by Code Red when they were distributed by BCI a few years ago and then reissued by Scorpion Releasing as part of their Katarina’s Nightmare Theater line, Jimmy Huston’s 1981 slasher Final Exam now debuts on Blu-ray as a collaborative release between Code Red and Shout! Factory’s horror imprint, Scream Factory. The film begins with a pair of college …