Rent It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu – ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Most science fiction fans already know the mess that is Highlander II: The Quickening
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. Pina , the long-gestating personal project from German director Wim Wenders ( Wings of Desire , Paris, Texas ), is a documentary/performance film that reverberates with emotion and wows with its technical wizardry. It is a time capsule, a museum piece, a …
Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones are both Ivy Leaguers who broke into Hollywood in the 1970s and went on
DVD Talk Collector Series THE MOVIES: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the DVD editions included in the Ultimate Edition , not the main Blu-ray discs under review. Had I known that the Harry Potter series was going to end up here, in a dark and challenging world where life is not all magic spells and problems dispensed with a wave of a wand, I’d have probably gotten on board and …
Highly Recommended The Movie: Directed by the prolific Wolfgang Reitherman for Disney and released in 1970, The Aristocats has lost none of its charm in the forty-two years that it’s been around. The humor still works, the story still grans you and the music still swings. With the film now released on Blu-ray for the first time, established fans of the picture can enjoy it in the best possible …
Highly Recommended Despite its distinction of being Jean Renoir’s first American film — not to mention one of Fox’s biggest moneymakers from the class of 1941 — Swamp Water has somehow managed to long languish in obscurity. Dismissed by [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] Read the entire review
Doesn’t it seem like summer just got here? At the movies, though, the season is almost over.
The DVD pickings – maybe a result of the July Fourth holiday – are thin this week. Rocko’s Modern Life, Season Three, Grade B: The 13 episodes include Rocko, Spunky, Heffer, and Filburt getting involved with a murder investigation involving the Bigheads.
Highly Recommended Certified Copy recreates a world that, down to the most minute detail, is entrancingly, enthrallingly real until it’s not. Such a dramatic statement likely brings to mind the ambitious sort of science fiction that encourages viewers to question everything in front of them.
Recommended THE MOVIE: Denzel Washington has chosen an odd specialty at this point in his career, a juncture at which he can basically do anything.