Diary of a Chambermaid ( Blu – ray )
Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu – ray edition under review.
March 12, 2013
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Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu – ray edition under review.
Highly Recommended The Movie: When Don Cosarelli’s original Phantasm film proved to be a box office success, the young director was none too keen on delving back into the horror genre for fear or being pigeonholed. As such, there’s a pretty large gap between the first film and the second one, which wasn’t made until the head of Universal at the time, a horror fan, bank rolled it in 1988 …
Rent It The Movie: Futureworld , Richard T. Heffron’s 1976 sequel to Michael Crichton’s 1973 hit Westworld , was made for AIP and distributed though MGM
Rent It THE FILM: During the opening scenes of So Undercover , in which a borderline obnoxious Miley Cyrus scales rooftops during a private-eye gig, I assumed the worst.
Highly Recommended Reviewed by Glenn Erickson Zero Dark Thirty is exactly what the ads say it is, a realistic account of the decade-long search for the 21st century’s first global enemy number one, Osama bin Laden. Unlike its Oscar competition Argo , the facts have not been teased in the interest of greater audience involvement; the details of this story are fascinating on their own. Director …
Recommended The Movie Note: the images accompanying this review are used for illustrative purposes only and do not reflect the contents of the Ministry of Fear Blu – ray . Ministry of Fear ‘s sturdily entertaining noir must have been as much of a “sure thing” as possible from the moment it first got the green light. After all, this handsomely mounted Paramount production was directed by Fritz Lang …
Rent It THE FILM: I have previously expressed how much I appreciate the wide variety of films I’ve been exposed to while writing for DVD Talk. Some of my favorite reviews to write have been for films I was not expecting to be great
DVD Talk Collector Series THE FILM Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials provided by the film’s distributor, not the Blu – ray edition of the film under review. It’s an epiphany that will come at different points for different viewers of L os Carax’s Holy Motors — that moment amid the film’s mysterious, increasingly bizarre, plot(s) when you realize that what it’s …
Rent It Nicholas and Alexandra Blu – ray Review Nicholas and Alexandra is anambitious, sprawling, and well-meaning motion pictureabout the remaining members of the Romanov family dynasty in Russia.Thecharacters are in the thrust surrounding revolution and changes toRussiangovernment. Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and produced by SamSpiegel,…
Highly Recommended Easter Parade Blu – ray Review Irving Berlin’s EasterParade is one of the greatest film musicals. The film stars JudyGarland,Fred Astaire, Peter Lawford, and Ann Miller and each performer bringssome oftheir greatest work to this “parade” of shows, featuring Academy Awardwinningmusic through adapted music score arranged by Johnny Green and RogerEdens. Easter Parade is one of the …