Highly Recommended The Film: There’s a strong urge to work in the words “exhilarating” and “adrenaline” at the very beginning of a review about Ron Howard’s Rush , mostly because they’re descriptors typically out of place for the director’s style … and, boy, the fact that they so aptly fit this one needs to be hammered home. Granted, one might assume that it’d be difficult to create a film …
Highly Recommended The Movie: Even though About Time ‘s key conceit is that lanky ginger Tim (Domhnall Gleeson, Brendan’s boy) has inherited from his father (the perpetually awesome Bill Nighy) the ability to travel back in time to previously lived moments in his life and change them as he sees fit, writer-director Richard Curtis ( Love Actually , Notting Hill ) is not all that interested in …
Rent It The Movie: Directed by Liliana Cavani in 1970, I Cannibali (or Year Of The Cannibals if you prefer) is set in the city of Milan where the government has cracked down on radicals and left their bodies littering the streets as a warning sign of sorts. The bodies come from all spectrums of life, male and female, young and old alike but it seems that the young outnumber the old by quite a …
Recommended Khumba , produced in South Africa, didn’t get a theatrical release here in the States but it’s been released on disc from Millennium Entertainment. The title character (voiced by Jake T
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Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. In an amusing recurring gag, the Dwight Twilley Band’s “Looking for Magic,” from their 1977 LP Twilley Don’t Mind , plays on loop from the CD player of the philandering couple murdered in the opening scene of You’re Next , Director Adam Wingard’s very funny, very bloody and long-shelved horror film …
Rent It Carrie Blu-ray Review Carrie isthelatest in a long running string of remakes of much-beloved films in thehorrorgenre that includes far too many films to even list or begin to count.Thistime around, the director is Kimberly Peirce ( Boys Don’tCry, Stop-Loss ) and the star is the up-and-comer ChloëGrace Moretz ( Hugo , Let Me In , Kick Ass ) in the role of Carrie White. The film …
Highly Recommended THE SERIES: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Subtle it is not, but Kevin Williamson’s The Following is crackling entertainment buoyed by strong performances from Kevin Bacon, as an FBI agent with emotional baggage, and James Purefoy, as a cunning serial killer and cult leader on the run.
Recommended Machete Kills – Blu-ray Review Remember that little film called Grindhouse ?The one that united longtime filmmaking friends Robert Rodriguez andQuentin Tarantino with a massive double-feature bill that was releasedinto theaters with a two-for-the-price-of-one experience rolled in withfake-trailers and both Rodriguez’s PlanetTerror and Tarantino’s DeathProof ? So do I. It …
Rent It The Movie: A creature-feature comedy whose premise brings to mind the ’80s work of Frank Henenlotter ( Basket Case ) and Joe Dante ( Gremlins ), Bad Milo! unfortunately lacks a bit of those filmmakers’ gonzo convictions to take their stories to the most imaginative extremes. That’s not to say that the movie is a bust, because there’s a lot for genre and comedy fans to like in Bad Milo …