Highly Recommended If you’re just looking for a quick, eight-word review, I could probably get away with leaving it at this: Intruder totally lives up to its cover art. Okay, you know how Joe Bob Briggs coined the phrase “Spam in a Cabin” to describe one of the most tried and true horror formulas of the 1980s? Y’know, a gaggle of horny twentysomethings trot off to some hopelessly out-of-the-way …
Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are promotional stills provided by Kino Lorber and from other sources, and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. “Industrial continuity is ensured, whatever happens.” Lucas Belvaux’s cool, elegant Rapt is a timely enough thriller, involving as it does the kidnapping and ransoming of a high-rolling, cocky, jet-setting …
Rent It The Movie: Developed, written and produced by Mortal Kombat superfan Kevin Tancharoen, Mortal Kombat: Legacy was originally conceived as a web series that premiered in the spring of 2011 on Machinima.com’s Youtube channel after a film that Tancharoen made got noticed. The series proved fairly popular with fans of the Mortal Kombat universe and Tancharoen’s attention to detail assured …
DVD Talk Collector Series THE FILM: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from the 2004 DVD release, not the Blu-ray edition under review. “The horrible thing about life is this: Everyone has their reasons.” A tragicomic masterpiece and an all-around great, inventive, sparkling, deservedly revered movie, Jean Renoir’s The Rules of the Game ( La R gle du jeu ) (released in 1939) is …
DVD Talk Collector Series The Movie: When I first saw the Yankeeography series of episodes a couple of years ago, I was less than underwhelmed, and thought the series could have used a bit more depth. Apparently I was heard in this regard, because this new set, titled Yankeeography Collector’s Edition Megaset , is all that and the proverbial bag of chips. The New York Yankees are not only at the …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are from promotional materials and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. “We always imagine happiness is somewhere other than where we are
Highly Recommended THE PROGRAM: Please Note: The images used here are promotional stills and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. There are many cinematic points of reference that could be brought to bear on Billy Budd , the 1948 opera (adapted from Herman Melville’s novella) by composer Benjamin Britten, novelist/librettist E.M
Skip It THE MOVIE: Please Note: The images used here are from the standard definition DVD included with the Blu-Ray and not from the Blu-Ray itself. Woodrow and Aiden grew up together in Wisconsin, obsessing over their Mad Max VHS and dreaming of how they’d survive the apocalypse.
Skip It THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are promotional stills and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. Considered solely as a career-launching vehicle, one can understand the appeal of Michael Cristofer’s 1998 made-for-HBO movie, Gia , a biopic recounting the tragic life and untimely death of Gia Carangi, America’s first “supermodel,” who died of AIDS in 1986, when …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are promotional stills provided by Kino Lorber and from other sources, and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. Jean-Claude (Gerard Depardieu, young and Byronesquely sexy like he was in Ma tresse ) and Pierrot (Patrick Dewaere) are very, very naughty boys. One would not put it so innocuously (the two are overgrown …