Recommended Content: To those who are not familiar with Fairy Tail (If you're reading this review for Part 10 then you should be up to date with it), I'll clue you in. Fairy Tail is easily one of the most popular anime/manga currently available..
Recommended The Movie: The latest film from Juno Mak (probably best known for his work on 2010's Revenge: A Love Story ) and his directorial debut begins when a man named Chin (Chin Siu Ho) moves into a tenement style apartment building. He shuffles into his new apartment with a few relics from his past: costumes, in need of repair, from the days when he was a successful actor. These days, Chin …
DVD Talk Collector Series A fascinating work, Georges Franju's Judex (1963) is at once unique while heavily influenced by both silent and contemporary films alike, and it probably helped spur the increased production less arty but likewise stylized movies in its wake. A crime thriller with science fiction and fantasy trappings, it remakes the famous 1916 French serial with less interest in the …
Highly Recommended Legend of Korra Book 2 Blu-ray Review One of the greatest series airing on televisionright now(regardless of genre or form) is The Legend of Korra . Korra is thefollow-up series to Avatar: The Last Airbender and a creativeworld hasbeen meticulously brought to life from the same talented creators,Michael DanteDiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, and the rest of the production …
Rent It THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. Though it came out in 2001, Kissing Jessica Stein seems to most strongly fit into the post- Swingers 1990s, when artists and performers outside of the Hollywood scene stopped waiting for someone to create a project that fit their particular quirks and …
Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. It would seem that in the wake of success of both the 1939 version of Wuthering Heights and perhaps even more so Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca in 1940, a slew of brooding romantic period pieces followed. Olive Films has started to corner the market …
Rent It No, you're thinking of The Burning , but I get why you'd go there.
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from standard-issue DVD included in the Criterion combo, not the Blu-ray.
Rent It One of those “What were they thinking?” films from the early 1970s, The Baby (1973) is a real oddball horror-thriller similar but much inferior to Jack Hill’s darkly comic cult film Spider Baby (filmed in 1964 but unreleased until 1968), so much so one wonders if Baby writer and co-producer Abe Polsky had seen it. Produced on a modest but adequate budget, The Baby is pretty mild with …