Recommended “Space Junk,” made for IMAX theatres, presents us with a growing problem that hasn’t gotten a lot of attention (although it was the subject of an early song by Devo with the same name but not included here): Just what happens to satellites orbiting the Earth after they’ve outlived their usefulness? It turns out that many of them just stay there, some for several decades after they’ve …
Highly Recommended Homeland Season 2 Blu-ray Review Click onan image to view the Blu-ray screenshotwith 1080p resolution Read the entire review
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. When I heard that Brad Pitt and World War Z director Marc Forster were not speaking as they feverishly re-shot the third act of this $190-million action film I expected the worst
Highly Recommended The Reluctant Fundamentalist Blu-ray Review Click onan image to view the Blu-rayscreenshot with 1080p resolution Read the entire review
Highly Recommended Fairy Tail – Part 5 Blu-ray Review Click onan image to view the Blu-rayscreenshot with 1080p resolution TheSeries: Read the entire review
Rent It The Movie: I may not be the only one that does this, but if there is a film that has enough actors in an ensemble that pique my interest and it does not appear on my radar when it comes out cinematically, I have a natural curiosity about it. And if Blood did come to my local cinema, I honestly do not remember it coming and/or going
Recommended The Movie: Make no mistake, Andrew Lau’s The Guillotines is an epic tale of honor, brotherhood, sacrifice and betrayal, set in Qing Dynasty era China. There are enough sword fights, chases through crowded streets and sprawling battles to satisfy any action aficionado. However, it’s also a bit confusing and incoherent, and leans a bit too heavily on bathos.
Recommended Though I’ve never been a big fan of hip hop music, I’ve found that movies centered around it are usually enjoyable. 8 Mile for example worked for me even though it was clich d with the whole poor-person-struggling-to-hit-it-big theme, but on the other hand there have been movies like Turn It Up which were extremely forgettable and seemed to just be preying upon their target audiences …
Skip It THE FILM: I can say with some confidence that this isn’t the worst science fiction film Roger Christian has ever directed. That would be Battlefield Earth , the John Travolta/Scientology in space disaster that won four Golden Raspberry Awards and lost Warner Brothers a ton of money
Recommended Producer Walter Mirisch’s Midway (1976) cleverly presented a huge scale, all-star (Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum, James Coburn, etc.) war movie on a deceptively modest budget, a fraction of the cost of movies like Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) and A Bridge Too Far (1977). Where those movies recreated epic battles full-scale, with thousands of extras and real military …