Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Perhaps you’ve heard of “middle-film syndrome.” That’s my own terminology, but you’ve seen the signs in films infected with this ailment: superfluous plotting, lack of narrative drive, and general pointlessness
Recommended The Hunchback of Notre Dame Blu-ray Review Click onan image to view the Blu-ray screenshotwith 1080p resolution The Hunchback of Notre Dame is one of the most famous storiesever told. The basis of this film version (and the many otheradaptations that have happened throughout decades) is the novel byaut…
Skip It Jack (John Cusack) has one task to complete on his newest assignment: deliver a bag.
Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less Harold Lloyd tackles popularity at college Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Classic comedies Likes: Harold Lloyd, good slapstick Dislikes: Most silent films Hates: Big-time college sports, most modern slapstick The Movie The Criterion Collection has long been in the Charlie Chaplin business, but they’ve kept the other members of the silent comedy holy trinity …
Recommended The Movie: The first film directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet is an intentionally odd film that follows the exploits of a French professor (Jacques Doniol-Valcroze) in Turkey whose unhappy existence is brightened by an encounter with a stunningly beautiful, albeit very mysterious, woman (Fran oise Brion).
Highly Recommended While troops on the front lines wait for D-Day, the high command of the American Navy is serviced by the wait staff in fancy London hotels. Lieutenant Commander Charlie Madison (James Garner) is a “dog robber”, a man who specializes in providing all the luxuries of home: food, clothes, booze, women — and he’s very good at what he does. Visitors excitedly agree his hotel room …
DVD Talk Collector Series Akira Kurosawa set out to make The Hidden Fortress ( Kakushi toride no san akunin or “Three Bad Men of the Hidden Fortress,” 1958) as “100% Entertainment.” In that he succeeds completely. The movie, later the basis for the first Star Wars (1977), to the point where Hidden Fortress star Toshiro Mifune was even considered for the role of Obi-Wan Kenobi, remains as …
Recommended Filmed in North Braddock, Pennsylvania (just outside of Pittsburgh) Scott Cooper’s Out of the Furnace (2013) examines a handful of characters in a town crippled by a failing economy, their own bad choices and/or quite a bit of bad luck. Our central characters are Russell (Christian Bale) and Rodney Baze (Casey Affleck), two brothers who have taken decidedly different paths in life …
DVD Talk Collector Series Reviewed by Glenn Erickson How does one write a critical review of a movie that plays as nothing less than perfect? It was a shock when, after receiving ten Academy Award nominations, David O.
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. In hindsight I’d say I should have watched The Best Man before watching its direct sequel, The Best Man Holiday