Rent It The Movie: The third and final film in Sam Raimi’s trilogy, 2007’s Spider-Man 3 picks up where the second film left off and catches up with Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) as he’s started to build his life back together after things got pretty dismal for him. He’s started to rebuild his relationship with Mary Jane (Kirstin Dunst), the love of his life, and he’s more comfortable in his role …
DVD Talk Collector Series THE FILM: Please Note: All of the images used here are from promotional materials and are not taken from the Blu-ray under review. Astutely predicting the outcry that would surely erupt from various Charlie Chaplin purists and completists were they to have put out only one Gold Rush or the other, Criterion is now releasing the 1925 classic as what amounts to one Blu-ray …
Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are promotional and are not taken from the Blu-ray under review. There’s no getting around the fact that P. David Ebersole’s Hit So Hard , a documentary on Patty Schemel, former drummer for the band Hole, is inherently going to have very different levels of appeal based on factors unrelated to how good and interesting the film is (and this …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are promotional and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. Thanks to The Criterion Collection, summer 2012 is, aptly , Bergman season: In concurrence with their release of the Swedish master’s 1953 turning-point film Summer with Monika , they’re also making available an earlier sea-and-sun youthful-romance reverie, his …
DVD Talk Collector Series There have been far too many “reboots,” “reimaginings,” and “reimagineerings” lately. And, anyway, aren’t those terms merely euphemisms for “Sure, we’ve made truckloads of money, but we can generate even more dough starting from scratch over and marketing an ‘event,’ rather than a mere sequel”?
Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from promotional materials provided by Kino Lorber, not the Blu-ray edition under review. Celebrity profiles might seem to be one of the more disposable categories of entertainment, but like anything else, it’s all in the details and execution.
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from promotional materials and the 2009 DVD release , not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Rent It THE FILM: Whitney Houston’s first acting role was a good fit: She played international music and film superstar Rachel Marron, a vulnerable diva whose life was threatened by a crazed fan, alongside Kevin Costner as her tireless protector in Director Mick Jackson’s The Bodyguard . Critics were not kind to the film, but it raked in over $400 million in worldwide receipts and its soundtrack …
DVD Talk Collector Series 2011 was, unquestionably, a fantastic year for fans of classic cinema.
Rent It “Unless.” Dr. Seuss’s prescient, cautionary environmental fable The Lorax (1971) was one of his best children’s books. Despite claims to the contrary on the disc’s single featurette, that “nobody was talking about the environment” at the time except for Seuss, in fact during the late 1960s and early ’70s concerns about the long-term effects of pollution, deforestation, and smog was on …