Recommended In an unusual but not surprising move, CBS/Paramount has opted to release a single (if feature-length) episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation to Blu-ray. The reason is obvious: “Grave Danger” was directed by Quentin Tarantino, who’s also credited with the story, while the teleplay is credited to Naren Shankar, Anthony E
Skip It Just to get this out of the way, I guess, I am totally the target demographic for a trashy exploitation flick like Nude Nuns with Big Guns .
Skip It THE MOVIE: Please Note: The images used here are from promotional materials and are not taken from the Blu-Ray edition under review. Imagine a version of Goodfellas where a hired scissor man took Scorsese’s film back into the editing bay to make it less arty and more commercial.
Rent It THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are from promotional materials and Aaron Beierle’s review of the DVD edition and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review.
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are promotional stills and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. What a fitting, masterful close to an illustrious, impassioned, and cheeky career is the late Ra l Ruiz’s last film, Mysteries of Lisbon ! The expatriate Chilean filmmaker, who left his homeland after the fascist Pinochet coup in 1973 and worked in Europe …
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: My first encounter with The Big Country was a couple of years ago. I wasn’t familiar with William Wyler’s 1958 film until George Clooney was talking about how he borrowed a scene from it for Leatherheads .
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are promotional stills and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. There is a scene in Godard’s turning-point 1965 film Pierrot le fou in which stars Anna Karina and Jean-Paul Belmondo perform an impromptu “play” for American tourists in which an event as vast, urgent, and serious as the Vietnam War–including all its …