Rent It The Movie: Approaching a film that was based on a Stephanie Meyer novel can be a dicey proposition. The woman behind the Twilight series of books that later spawned a series of films that scores of women young and old flocked to is attempting to break out into ground past that cast shadow. And while The Host shares its name with the 2006 Korean horror film, one could very well assert …
Recommended The Movie: The directorial debut of Eric Red (who also wrote), 1989’s Cohen And Tate begins at a farm, looking as serene and peaceful as you’d expect, except for the armed guards surrounding the house.
Rent It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. 21 & Over is not the first comedy to replicate the formula from The Hangover in hopes of striking box office gold. Nor am I the first reviewer to say that 21 & Over is likely only appealing to those 21 and under.
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Director Brad Anderson refuses to be pigeonholed.
Highly Recommended During the early 1930s, ambitious comedy producer Hal Roach, anxious to move away from the two-reel comedies for which he was famous, decided that his ticket to bigger and better things lay in feature-length, lavishly costumed adaptations of operettas. And yet the resulting, dramatically wobbly films, Fra Diavolo , Babes in Toyland , and The Bohemian Girl , would be forgotten …
Highly Recommended Note: images do not reflect the contents of the Of Human Bondage Blu-Ray. The Movie: There have been a few film adaptations made from Of Human Bondage , W.
Highly Recommended THE FILM Please Note: The images used here are from stills provided by The Criterion Collection and promotional materials and are not taken from the current Blu-ray edition under review. One of the reasons that Czech writer Vladislav Vancura’s 1931 novel Marketa Lazarova has long been considered a notorious challenge to translators is that its avant-gardism — its intentional …
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Recommended With next year’s Fury Road just around the corner, it’s a good time to revisit George Miller’s original Mad Max trilogy. The first two installments have been available on Blu-ray for several years, while the third adventure makes its debut as part of this (almost) 35th Anniversary collection. It’s not a definitive effort by any stretch, but this isn’t a cheap repackaging job either …
Skip It Note: images do not reflect the contents of the Blowing Wild Blu-Ray. The Movie: Over the past couple of years, Olive Films has been the classic film lover’s best friend. They’ve already reissued several lesser-known but generally worthwhile films from the archives of Paramount and Republic, along with independent ventures such as the John Garfield boxing flick Body and Soul .