Rent It The Movie: The latest film from the animated wing of 20th Century Fox is Epic , following in the wings of similarly one word-titled animated films full of adventure, wonder and bravado. But just how well this film measures to the recent crop of similar ones in the genre remained to be seen for me until I finally experienced the slightly hyperbolic Epic on Blu-ray. So time to crack open …
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Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Midway through Pain & Gain , as the Rock is grilling some human hands and feet over a charcoal grill, a title card appears informing the audience that “This is still a true story.” This mid-’90s set slice of Bayhem is based on true events, chronicled in several Miami New Times articles and a book by …
Rent It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. The road to adapting Jack Kerouac’s 1957 novel “On the Road” for the screen was filled with potholes and began several decades ago when the author courted Marlon Brando for the lead role of Beat generation drifter Dean Moriarty. Brando expressed little interest in the part, and Francis Ford Coppola eventually …
Rent It THE FILM Please Note: The images used here are photos provided by Sony Pictures Classics and do not directly reflect the picture quality of the Blu-ray edition under review. Without a doubt, writer/director Ramin Bahrani ( Chop Shop , Goodbye Solo ) has a head on his shoulders and a thoughtful engagement with the impact of our social, political, cultural, and economic climate and its …
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DVD Talk Collector Series THE FILM Please Note: The images used here are photos provided by Sony Pictures Classics and do not directly reflect the picture quality of the Blu-ray edition under review.
Rent It THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. Finally, the talky, political remake of Taken film snobs have been waiting for! Who needs action when a bunch of guys can stand around chatting about decades-old slights?
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DVD Talk Collector Series “I wish my head could forget what my eyes have seen.” “Thirty [fires] a night for thirty years. That’s how you burn a city down.” “I feel like I’m in the burning of Rome” – Firefighters of Engine Co