Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. A film about Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone escaping a maximum-security prison together is either going to be something you want to see or it isn’t. Escape Plan slid under the radar last fall and seemed like the icing on a particularly bad year for the indestructible duo following their …
Highly Recommended The Film: There’s a strong urge to work in the words “exhilarating” and “adrenaline” at the very beginning of a review about Ron Howard’s Rush , mostly because they’re descriptors typically out of place for the director’s style … and, boy, the fact that they so aptly fit this one needs to be hammered home. Granted, one might assume that it’d be difficult to create a film …
Highly Recommended The Movie: Even though About Time ‘s key conceit is that lanky ginger Tim (Domhnall Gleeson, Brendan’s boy) has inherited from his father (the perpetually awesome Bill Nighy) the ability to travel back in time to previously lived moments in his life and change them as he sees fit, writer-director Richard Curtis ( Love Actually , Notting Hill ) is not all that interested in …
Highly Recommended Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. The TV Series: Of all the filmed versions of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice , the 1995 BBC-A&E television production seems to be the one that people (especially women) keep returning to again and again. Why is that?
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Highly Recommended Across television and film, there are at least 32 adaptations of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. In an amusing recurring gag, the Dwight Twilley Band’s “Looking for Magic,” from their 1977 LP Twilley Don’t Mind , plays on loop from the CD player of the philandering couple murdered in the opening scene of You’re Next , Director Adam Wingard’s very funny, very bloody and long-shelved horror film …
Rent It Carrie Blu-ray Review Carrie isthelatest in a long running string of remakes of much-beloved films in thehorrorgenre that includes far too many films to even list or begin to count.Thistime around, the director is Kimberly Peirce ( Boys Don’tCry, Stop-Loss ) and the star is the up-and-comer ChloëGrace Moretz ( Hugo , Let Me In , Kick Ass ) in the role of Carrie White. The film …
DVD Talk Collector Series Some movies get a bum rap. Such is the case of Raise the Titanic (1980), a critical flop and, more importantly, a colossal commercial failure with $7 million in U.S. and Canadian earnings against a $40 million negative cost
Highly Recommended THE SERIES: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Subtle it is not, but Kevin Williamson’s The Following is crackling entertainment buoyed by strong performances from Kevin Bacon, as an FBI agent with emotional baggage, and James Purefoy, as a cunning serial killer and cult leader on the run.