Highly Recommended Jean de Florette / Manon of the Spring – Blu-ray Review Based upon thenovel written by Marcel Pagnol, Jean de Florette and Manonofthe Spring are double-billed films which were distributed with thenotationof being Part One and Part Two respectively.
Highly Recommended Pom Poko Blu-ray Review Pom Poko is a storyrooted in Japanese folklore. This is an essentially modern fablesurroundingthe idea of magical shape-shifting raccoon dogs living in Japan.
Highly Recommended Bandit Queen (1994) is a fascinating though grueling Indian-British co-production about the life of Phoolan Devi (1963-2001), a real-life modern day bandit in rural India.
Highly Recommended Breaking Away Blu-ray Review It's never too late to follow your dreams. Thatimportanttheme is at the heart of Breaking Away , which became anenormous successfor everyone involved in the production.
Rent It The Movie: I have yet to have had the pleasure of watching one of the many films written and directed by Tyler Perry, but from what I've gathered second- and third-hand, his output is characterized by abrupt tonal shifts from silly comedy to severe melodrama, augmented by themes derived from Christian morality. If that is truly the case, then I wouldn't be surprised if Tyler Perry took …
Recommended The Movie: I'd be shocked if there isn't at least one Hollywood studio developing The Green Prince as a feature. The true story of the son of a Hamas leader secretly collaborating with the Shin Bet, Israel's internal security service, in order to cut down on the amount of innocent lives that would have been taken by Hamas' terrorist attacks is ripe for an awards season prestige …
Recommended The Movie: Dear White People is like a less brutal, angry, poignant, yet almost as funny millennial version of Do The Right Thing , utilizing the benign hipster storytelling approach of Wes Anderson while appropriating some of the visual aesthetics of late period Kubrick. It's not the new original voice of satire or the groundbreaking honest take on America's current race relations …
Rent It Director: James Motttern Starring: Ben Barnes, Leighton Meester, Harvey Keitel Year: 2014 I'm a big NFL fan and always enjoy when a football player makes the transition to Hollywood actor.
Recommended “Brawling! Like a common hussy!” — Sally Maris (Joan Leslie), appalled at her own violence Woman They Almost Lynched (1953) is a fascinating though ultimately not very good oddball Western. Its gender-switch plot plays like a crude warm-up to Johnny Guitar , (1954), Nicholas Ray's celebrated if campy Western starring Joan Crawford and Mercedes McCambridge. In Woman They Almost …
Recommended The Movie: Directed (and co-written) by Yang Lu, 2014's Brotherhood Of Blades is set in the Ming Dynasty and is one of many recent Chinese period martial arts dramas to make its way to these North American shores over the last few years. A lot of these pictures are fairly interchangeable, though they do typically boast beautiful production values and impressive martial arts set …