Highly Recommended An anomaly among early 70s horror films, The Other (1972) was directed by and starring actors with little genre experience. Certain aspects of the film don’t quite work but in many other ways the film is genuinely unsettling and original. Its premise in some aspects anticipates The Omen (1976), also produced by 20th Century-Fox and featuring a score by Jerry Goldsmith, though …
Highly Recommended The Film : Neil Jordan’s Byzantium emerges just as the recurrent vampire “craze” has started to lower back into its grave, where those popular franchises that capitalized on the trend have either wrapped up or are settling into a formulaic reputation out of the spotlight. Instead of clashing with conventions that everyone knows and relishes, this marks an ideal time for …
Highly Recommended The Movie: Directed by Ren Clair who co-wrote the screenplay with Armand Salacrou, 1950’s Beauty Of The Devil (which was released in other territories, including the United States, as The Beauty And The Devil so as to not promote whatever attractive qualities the Lord Of Hell might have!) is essentially a retelling of Faust .
DVD Talk Collector Series Cassavetes Set – Five Films – Blu-ray Ifyou havenever seen a film by John Cassavetes before you might wonder why somefilmsfans have become so enamored by his movies. The works of Cassavetes areoftendescribed as being the “truth” — films that manage to bring  real acting, emotion, and stories to thecinema.
Rent It Perhaps spurred on by the success of the hit Discovery Channel program “Deadliest Catch” (which makes an “appearance” here), Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel climbed on board a New England fishing boat to film Leviathan , a nearly wordless 90-minute documentary. Captured on GoPro cameras mounted on sticks, the movie has no traditional narrative, no interviews, no obvious …
Recommended The Movie: Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni in 1961, La Notte follows a wealthy married couple, wife Lidia (Jeanne Moreau) and her husband, an author named Giovanni (Marcello Mastroianni), as they travel around their home city of Milan.
Recommended The Movie: Directed by Chad Crawford Kinkle, 2013’s Jug Face is a twisted tale of backwoods horror spun through a narrative that blends the worst of superstition and religion with a sort of inbred hillbilly-ish setting to create something unexpectedly unique. If you look at the cover art, it looks like maybe this is some sort of possession movie, they seem semi-popular these days …
Rent It The Movie: Danish thriller A Hijacking arrives on Blu Ray closely aligned with the theatrical release of Tom Hanks’ docudrama Captain Phillips . Coincidence? Perhaps Magnolia was hoping to capitalize on some of the hype from the Hanks film, but this one presents a darker, less dynamic take on the rash of ocean hijackings off the coast of Somalia soaking up the headlines in recent years …
Highly Recommended The Movie: Elijah Wood is not Joe Spinell. Nobody, except Joe Spinell, is Joe Spinell