Recommended “Brawling! Like a common hussy!” — Sally Maris (Joan Leslie), appalled at her own violence Woman They Almost Lynched (1953) is a fascinating though ultimately not very good oddball Western. Its gender-switch plot plays like a crude warm-up to Johnny Guitar , (1954), Nicholas Ray's celebrated if campy Western starring Joan Crawford and Mercedes McCambridge. In Woman They Almost …
Recommended The Movie: Directed (and co-written) by Yang Lu, 2014's Brotherhood Of Blades is set in the Ming Dynasty and is one of many recent Chinese period martial arts dramas to make its way to these North American shores over the last few years. A lot of these pictures are fairly interchangeable, though they do typically boast beautiful production values and impressive martial arts set …
Recommended The Movie: When this masterpiece of gothic horror begins, an accused witch named Asa Vajda (Barbara Steele) has the Mask Of Satan pounded onto her face before she's burned at the stake.
Rent It The Movie: Directed by Brett Simmons (and produced by Drew Barrymore, yes that Drew Barrymore), 2014's Animal is hardly going to win any awards for originality but for the creature feature fans out there who appreciate guys in suits' over CGI rendered beasties, this is worth a look. The movie revolves around a camping trip led by Jeff (Parker Young) who is accompanied by his foxy …
Highly Recommended The Film: Porco Rosso rarely finds itself at the top of most Studio Ghibli “favorite” lists, which are often capped off with the works of Hayao Miyazaki involving whimsical creatures of the forest and grand narratives hinged on being transported to dream-like settings. His tale of a veteran WWI pilot turned bounty hunter who's been cursed with the vestige of a pig doesn't have …
Recommended Directed and co-written by stand-up comic Bonnie Hunt, Return to Me (2000) feels several decades out of place…but for almost all the right reasons. Our story revolves around Bob Rueland (David Duchovny), an architect who—without venturing too far into spoiler territory—is separated from his wife and wading through unmarried life
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. What would you do to be famous?
Highly Recommended The Movie: The directorial debut of Chad Stahelski (a prolific stunt coordinator/stunt double who has worked on everything from The Matrix to The Crow to The Expendables ), 2014's John Wick stars Keanu Reeves as the titular character. When the film begins, his wife passes away from a terminal illness
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Anyone taking Luc Besson's Lucy to task for its junk science is missing the point. OK, so humans really do use more than ten percent of the brain's capacity, and no magic pill is going to increase that power tenfold
Recommended The Movie: Directed by Val Guest, a director probably best remembered for the films he made for Hammer Studios than anything else (and some of those were damn good films!), 1957's The Weapon was made for Pelican, picked up in North America by Republic.