Highly Recommended The Movie: Directed by the late, great special effects titan Stan Winston (his first feature as a director) based on the poem by Ed Justin, 1988's Pumpkinhead is the tragic tale of a man named Ed Harley (Lance Henriksen) who owns and operates a local grocery store in the deep south.
Highly Recommended Cardcaptor Sakura Complete Series Premium Edition Blu-ray Cardcaptor Sakura is one of the most successful shojo anime(and manga) series ever created. Based upon the popular serializedmangacreated by the popular all-girl manga group Clamp, CardcaptorSakura became a huge success that spawned the creationof this equally beloved series, two feature films connected to theseries …
Skip It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore reunite for their third project together, Blended , an embarrassingly inept romantic comedy that might have ranked at the bottom of Sandler's resume but for that Jack and Jill debacle
Recommended The Movie: Musical biopics are the worst. They tend to exhibit the most infuriating aspects of regular biopics — the many shortcuts screenwriters take to squeeze a human life into three acts and 120 pages — plus they have an added requirement: they gotta play the hits.
Recommended Following years of steady but dead-end employment as a supporting player, actor Charles Bronson abandoned Hollywood for the European continent where, very quickly, he established himself there and in Asia as a major star. It was during Bronson's “European period” that he made some of his best films: Farewell, Friend , Once Upon a Time in the West (both 1968), Rider on the Rain …
Recommended The Movie: As far as mainstream acceptance of LGBT people are concerned, it looks like TV has done a better job lately than feature film did. Shows like Will & Grace and Glee has done wonders in terms of promoting tolerance while still providing simple and corny entertainment. On the other hand, feature films that bring LGBT issues and characters to the forefront tend to get stuck …
Rent It The Movie: The pleasant, straightforward Burt's Buzz documents a few weeks in the life of Burt Shavitz, otherwise known as the scraggly-bearded man pictured on those Burt's Bees skin care products stocked in drug stores everywhere. Like Kentucky Fried Chicken's Colonel Sanders, it can be disarming to think that there's a real person behind the merchandise. Just as one couldn't picture …
Recommended On My Way ( Elle s'en va , 2013) is an engrossing French humanist drama starring Catherine Deneuve as a 60-something former beauty queen forced to confront estranged family relationships and her own general unhappiness when on a whim she abandons her livelihood and takes to the road. Directed by actress Emmanuelle Bercot ( Cl ment ) the deliberately paced film proves an ideal vehicle …
Recommended The Movie: Written and directed by Ti West (he of House Of The Devil and The Innkeepers fame) and very clearly influenced by the Jim Jones/People's Temple mass murder, 2013's The Sacrament introduces us to Patrick (Kentucker Audley), a photographer. His sister, Caroline (Amy Seimetz), had some drug addiction issues in the past but since getting out of rehab has found a new start at …
Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less Even on TV, Pixar's breakout hit is outstanding Reviewer's Bias* Loves: Toy Story , Pixar films Likes: Animated shorts Dislikes: Unnecessary sequels Hates: Most made-for-TV sequels The Movie Toy Story has one of the more interesting runs in movie trilogy history. The first film was a work of genius that required no sequel.