Rent It THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. I remember the print ads for Eating Raoul from when I was a kid. Even in black-and-white in the newspaper, the big lips seemed somehow dirty to me.
Skip It The Movie: White Vengeance , in the promotional materials, states that it’s part of the ‘Red Cliff’ saga, but at a much earlier point in that time line. Whether it references the John Woo’s Red Cliff or the historical one is up for debate. What White Vengeance does is pit to friends up against each other all over the love of a woman.
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials and a prior review of the Blu-ray by DVD Savant , not the Blu-ray disc under review. More gripping, succinct, and troubling than almost any picture made in the Hollywood studios’ golden age, Fred Zinnemann’s 1952 Western High Noon is a starker, more thoughtful example of the genre than many of its …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from stills provided by Kino Lorber, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Recommended [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] The overture plays as the audience begins to settle into their seats. After a few minutes of that lovely music, the curtains start to pull back. Read the entire review
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials/stills, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Rent It In a nutshell, this new Blu-Ray collection from AnimEigo collects all six original Lone Wolf and Cub films, adapted from the popular manga created by Kazuo Koike. Produced and released between 1972 and 1974, they captured the books’ colorful celebration of poetic violence, bloodshed and revenge. These six films are briefly summarized below, followed by a technical review of AnimEigo’s …
Skip It The Movie: It’s been quite a while since I’ve tackled an independent romantic comedy, but I heard a lot of things, good and bad, about Lola Versus , so why the hell not, right? And on Blu-ray no less. Lola Versus has a peculiar title, because it’s whatever you want it to be.
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from stills and other promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. It has an abandoned battleship, not a locomotive, as its perpetually in-motion, out-of-control set, but Buster Keaton’s 1924 feature The Navigator — the last occasion on which he shared directing credit before going full auteur for the …
Highly Recommended The Movie: Directed by the prolific Wolfgang Reitherman for Disney and released in 1970, The Aristocats has lost none of its charm in the forty-two years that it’s been around. The humor still works, the story still grans you and the music still swings. With the film now released on Blu-ray for the first time, established fans of the picture can enjoy it in the best possible …