Highly Recommended The Movie: Hitting Blu-ray a few short weeks before the 70th Anniversary of D-Day, director Stuart Cooper’s 1975 drama Overlord , which covers the lead-up to that famous battle at Normandy, is decidedly unsentimental, somewhat anticlimactic, yet undeniably beautiful. Starting with deftly edited archive footage from England’s Imperial War Museum, Cooper weaves in newly-shot …
Recommended One of a series of Blu-ray double-feature releases from Sony, Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. (2003) and Godzilla: Final Wars (2004) are the last Japanese-made Godzilla movies to date, possibly ever
DVD Talk Collector Series In 10 Words or Less Back to the depths, this time on Blu-ray Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Jeff Goldblum, The Criterion Collection Likes: Bill Murray, Wes Anderson, most of this cast Dislikes: Getting no new extras Hates: Not a whole lot about this movie The Movie Currently sitting at six, but likely to reach eight with the inevitable releases of Moonrise Kingdom and The …
Highly Recommended The Mini-Series: Back in 2006, the first sketch aired on the British comedy series That Mitchell and Webb Look , starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb of the popular sitcom Peep Show , portrayed two Nazis on the Russian front some time during the wane of World War II.
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Rent It THE FILM: There is little to distinguish Bachelor Party from the horde of 1980s crude comedies except one thing, and it is a doozy: Tom Hanks. Fresh off the success of Splash , Hanks joined a cast of relatively unknowns in Director Neal Israel’s low-budget comedy that is surprisingly light on laughs. If anything, Bachelor Party is an interesting time capsule, and Hanks manages to inject …
Skip It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Michael Caine is the star of the original 1971 Get Carter and stars in this 2000 remake with Sylvester Stallone in the lead as mob enforcer Jack Carter. The original was gritty and exciting; this one not so much.
Recommended The Movie: Written and directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet and released theatrically in 1970, Eden And After is one of the stranger films in the filmmaker’s already bizarre filmography. The beginning of the film is centered around the appropriately titled Eden Caf , a coffee house that attracts a crowd of art students who seem to appreciate its anti-social sensibilities
Recommended As frantic and unpredictable as its central character, Richard Donner’s Conspiracy Theory (1997) takes viewers on a wild ride from start to finish. Our man under the microscope is Jerry Fletcher (Mel Gibson), a deeply troubled cab driver who perpetually peeks behind the curtain and believes in shady cover-ups, shadow government, and other suppressions of the truth. When he’s not …
Skip It Less than a year ago, Acorn collected the first two “Jack Irish” telemovies into a Blu-Ray set. The films, based on the books by author Peter Temple, followed Irish (Guy Pearce) as he slowly shifts from being a fancy criminal attorney to being a private investigator, while recovering from the murder of his wife, Isabel.