The Rake's Progress (Blu-ray)
Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the opera’s promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
February 27, 2012
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Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the opera’s promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less Animated adventure with a hint of humor Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Good animation, Salma Hayek, Zach Galifianakis Likes: Action comedy, Antonio Banderas, the Shreck franchise Dislikes: Wasted talent Hates: Humpty Dumpty The Movie Though your humble reviewer has watched all four Shrek films, and enjoyed them to various degrees, outside of the first one, none …
Skip It Zoinks! Abby (Aimee Teegarden) , her kinda-sorta boyfriend Travis (Tony Oller) , and a few other clean-scrubbed fake teenager types think they’ve spotted a gh-gh- ghost ! at Old Man Ely’s creepy ol’ house. I mean, they see a couple of silhouettes dancing in an upstairs window, and…well, what else could it be? Ghosts
Recommended THE SHOW: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the series’ promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Skip It When a senator is murdered, a CIA analyst named Ben Geary (Topher Grace) connects the murders to a series of killings by a group known as the Cassius Seven. All but Cassius was caught or killed, and Geary believes Cassius is back. To assist Brandt in his investigation, the director (Martin Sheen) calls in the man who tracked down the other six: Paul Shepherdson (Richard Gere)
Skip It The Show: Â The BBC has been putting out some great SF/Fantasy shows inrecent years. Â The new DoctorWho is one of the best shops onthe air, Torchwood is excellent, and BeingHuman is always fun to watch. Â So I wasexcited when I heard that ‘the Beeb’was going to try its hand at a dark fantasy/horror series involvingghosts andzombies.
Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from an earlier standard-definition DVD, not the Blu-ray edition under review. I’m starting to feel a surge of ’90s nostalgia lately, which is something I thought I’d never say. Though, to be fair, it’s really only for the cinema of the decade, and mainly due to the recent spate of Miramax films making their way to Blu …
Rent It “Now look — you meet an old lesbian, huh? And a friend of yours gets a headache. All of a sudden, it’s sorcery and witches!” Part of what I love so much about Blue Underground is how wildly unpredictable their release slate can be.
Rent It Time is money. No, really! I mean that totally literally, and if you somehow manage to miss that pun the first time through, In Time will help you out by repeating it over and over and over and over and over and over [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] … Read the entire review
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from the 1998 DVD , not the Blu-ray edition under review.