Detention (Blu-ray)
Highly Recommended The 2004 film Torque came and went, dismissed by most as a forgettable Fast and the Furious knockoff that replaced cars with motorcycles and called it a day.
July 27, 2012
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Highly Recommended The 2004 film Torque came and went, dismissed by most as a forgettable Fast and the Furious knockoff that replaced cars with motorcycles and called it a day.
Highly Recommended The Movie: Long before Martin Scorsese would become for lack of a better phrase, Martin Scorsese was hungrily trying to get his personal film Mean Streets some big studio support and distribution, particularly in light of friend Francis Ford Coppola’s success with The Godfather . However Scorsese felt that his was a film closer and truer to his experiences growing up. But not …
DVD Talk Collector Series THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are stills provided by Cinema Guild and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. “Even the embers went out.” Anything resembling conventional narrative is dispensed with quickly and tersely, at the very beginning of Hungarian film maestro B la Tarr’s superlative The Turin Horse
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are promotional stills provided by Sony Pictures Classics and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. One of the movie moments that made the deepest impressions on me as a youngster/budding cinephile was the few minutes in Woody Allen’s Crimes and Misdemeanors where Judah (Martin Landau) revisits a scene from his …
Skip It THE FILM: Channing Tatum is in demand these days after stripping for Steven Soderbergh and fighting crime undercover with Jonah Hill. Step Up , released back in 2006, is not up to par with Tatum’s more recent films, and plays like a bland knockoff of the already-middle-of-the-road Save the Last Dance .
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Chariots of Fire is a film I had seen parodied long before I actually saw it. The film’s ubiquitous title sequence of runners on a beach and its synthesizer-heavy score is known by many unfamiliar with the complete work. The Oscar-winning drama is quite good, too, and tells the story of two runners in 1920s Britain who deal with anti-Semitism and religious conviction …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from Criterion’s 1999 DVD edition and do not reflect the picture quality of the Blu-ray under review. In the films of Alfred Hitchcock, the world of seemingly everyday, normal, ordinary experience merely represents the precarious waters lying just outside a powerful whirlpool of danger, intrigue, and sobering (or even …
DVD Talk Collector Series THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are promotional and are not taken from the Blu-ray under review. In the midst of Turkish writer/director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s ( Climates , Three Monkeys ) epically restrained crime drama/road trip of the soul, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia , its ostensibly central murder-investigation plot takes one more in a series of strange …
Recommended The Movie: Project X is the story of a couple of high school losers composed of Thomas (Thomas Mann), Costa (Oliver Cooper), JB (Jonathan Brown), and Dax (Dax Flame). Ha, I just noticed that everyone used their real names, with exception to Costa.
DVD Talk Collector Series Chronologically speaking, Love and Anarchy ( Film d’amore e d’anarchia, ovvero: stamattina alle 10, in via dei Fiori, nella nota casa di tolleranza… , or “Love and Anarchy or: This Morning at 10, on Via dei Fiori, in a Famous Brothel …” 1973) is the second of three great new Blu-ray releases from Kino Classics