Recommended One of the first things people have and will continue to say about Wetlands is that it's a frank exploration of women's sexuality. That's certainly true, but it may be more accurate to call the film an exploration of women's biology
Highly Recommended Heaven & Earth is a 1993 dramatic filmfromacclaimed filmmaker Oliver Stone ( Salvador , JFK , Nixon ).Based upon the memoirs written by Le Ly Hayslip (along with Jay Wurtis)entitled:” When Heaven And Earth Changed Places “, Stone adapted thememoir as screenwriter and director. Â StarringHiep Thi Le as Le Ly, Heaven &Earth is a sweeping epic spanning the years from …
Rent It Advertised as “suspenseful” and “a stick of dynamite”, Robert Aldrich's Ten Seconds to Hell (1959) drops a handful of men in the middle of near-constant danger…with mixed results. The story is simple: six German POWs, including Karl Wirtz (Jeff Chandler) and de facto leader Erik Koertner (Jack Palance), have been offered a large payday to clear unexploded Allied bombs from war-torn …
Recommended Having just reviewed Kino Lorber's release of that other highly-anticipated revisionist Bicentennial Western from a major director with big stars that proved a colossal critical and commercial disaster, Robert Altman's Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson , I confess to approaching The Missouri Breaks (also 1976) with a lot of trepidation.
Highly Recommended The Film: Few films are as appreciated sight unseen as Richard Linklater's Boyhood , his decade-long project in depicting the maturation of a boy from his prepubescent years all the way to his high-school graduation. The idea itself, filtered through the lens of the slice-of-life director responsible for Dazed and Confused and the Before … series, amasses its own mix of …
Rent It The Movie: Finding Fela is an efficient, albeit messy documentary that should provide a decent introduction to those who have never heard of Fela Kuti or have a basic understanding of his work. I belong to the second category.
Recommended The Movie: The Guest is a flat-footed genre exercise that's as straight and stripped as they come, but it's brimming with enough style, tension, mood, and technical creativity to successfully cover for its stunning lack of originality.
Recommended Please Note: The screen shots accompanying this review come from the DVD edition of Looking: The Complete First Season.
Recommended The Movie: Even when it was first released thirty-three years ago, On Golden Pond already felt dated, so it's no surprise that viewing it now makes it look older than it actually is.
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review.