Recommended ::audible gasp!:: [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] I know! America’s sweetheart — or…errr…whatever the male equivalent of that is — has been drafted. Untold millions of smitten, shrieking teenage girls have taken t… Read the entire review
DVD Talk Collector Series THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
DVD Talk Collector Series THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. “My name is Rosetta…. I found a job…
Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less Watching a video game has its highs and lows Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Exciting action films Likes: Martial arts movies Dislikes: Slow pacing Hates: Organized crime movies The Movie Like most people, my exposure to The Raid – Redemption had been limited to online clips of the film’s epic hallway brawl, which highlighted the film’s high-octane martial arts …
Recommended A remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s Dial M for Murder (1954) and the Frederick Knott play from which it was derived, A Perfect Murder (1998) cannily reconfigures its plot and characters for a much more cynical, modern day audience. Patrick Smith Kelly’s screenplay deviates from its source quite a bit, but the results aren’t terrible
Recommended Rob Gordon (John Cusack) is, by most accounts, a pretty unlikable guy. He’s deceitful, manipulative, self-centered, neurotic, callous and insensitive. He’s just been through an unexpected breakup with a longtime girlfriend, so he’s naturally doing a bit of self-reflection to figure out where everything went drastically, dreadfully wrong
DVD Talk Collector Series THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are stills provided by StudioCanal or from the film’s original promotion, and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. “Frontiers are an invention of Man; Nature doesn’t give a damn.” – Rosenthal, La Grande illusion In some strange but salient way, Jean Renoir’s 1937 masterpiece, which has at its center a trio of …
Recommended I didn’t realize it until I was watching the movie, but Next of Kin is actually a style of action movie they don’t seem to make anymore: one that focuses on building up the moral or ethical code of its hero rather than the scheme of the villain. The conflict that Patrick Swayze’s Truman Gates faces is not a ticking time bomb or a mad terrorist, but the way his situation places …
Highly Recommended Despite its distinction of being Jean Renoir’s first American film — not to mention one of Fox’s biggest moneymakers from the class of 1941 — Swamp Water has somehow managed to long languish in obscurity. Dismissed by [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] Read the entire review
Rent It The Film: Underutilized actor Nick Stahl, best known from his roles as an earthy super-powered prophet in HBO’s Carnivale , continues his streak of flimsy direct-to-video appearances with On the Inside , an institutional drama-thriller from Haunting in Connecticut director D.W.