Not Fade Away (Blu-ray)
Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
April 24, 2013
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Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution.
Recommended The Movie: When I reviewed the San Francisco Giants’ Collector’s Edition of Blu-ray discs that commemorated their 2012 World Series win , I bemoaned the fact that the set was as complete as could be, minus the addition of a season in review film, or even one covering the Giants’ move through the postseason. Lo and behold, it turns out MLB Video (in coordination with A&E) actually did …
Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less Brilliant ’80s time capsule in cult-classic form Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Crazy plots Likes: Don Coscarelli films Dislikes: Gore Hates: When people can’t handle originality The Movie Unlike many fans of Repo Man , I discovered the film a bit later in life. I was always aware of the film, even if I did sometimes confuse it with another Emilio Estevez favorite …
Skip It Before the wide adoption of DVD and Blu-Ray, it seemed like there was a sense that other countries were making much better movies than America. A Run Lola Run here, an Oldboy there, and suddenly foreign film became a movie-geek magnet
Recommended The Movie: Directed by Peter Chan in 2011, Dragon (retitled for release in North America by the Weinsteins for some reason, the original title was Wu-Xia ) stars Donnie Yen as a man named Liu Jin-xi. He’s lived in the same small town for about ten years now, having married a local single mother named Ayu (Tang Wei) and set up shop in town making paper. Together he and his wife are …
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu – ray edition under review. Critics are fond of declaring things like, “It’s the best time I had at the movies all year!” Only, when we do, it’s not supposed to be about a movie that is over 70 years old.
Rent It Yann Arthus-Bertrand and Michael Pitiot’s Planet Ocean (2012), like many eco-minded documentaries, wants to captivate our senses while attempting to get its message across.
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu – ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. After a violent confrontation with his wife’s lover, Paris attorney Paul Exben becomes a chameleon, slinking through the lives of others while calculating his future. This French thriller, directed by Eric Lartigau, is less suspenseful than haunting, and Romain Duris gives Exben a wide-eyed alertness seemingly …
Skip It THE MOVIE: Please Note: The images used here are taken from the standard-definition DVD included with this release, not the Blu – ray edition under review. My favorite conceit of movies about authors is that they always have said authors sitting around with others of their kind making grand pronouncements about their craft and inflating what is one of the world’s most boring professions to …