Highly Recommended The Movie: Coming Home is proof that, then and now, attempting to return to normal life after combat duty is pure hell. As one of the few feature films to go into the psychological toll of returning war vets, the 1978 Vietnam War-era drama ended up as the most acclaimed work from maverick director Hal Ashby ( Harold and Maude ; Shampoo ).
Highly Recommended The Movie: I sincerely hope that you will read this review instead of simply looking at the star rating and assuming that Samurai Cop is a mediocre and forgettable action movie from the 80s, which is what a 2.5 stars out of 5 implies. Before you write Samurai Cop off completely, let me explain myself: Samurai Cop is as far as you can get from mediocre or forgettable. Chances …
Highly Recommended The Movie: Pride is one of the best examples of the “Conservative working class Brits face socially controversial change and learn to grow as a result” British comedies pioneered by the likes of Full Monty , Billy Elliot and Calendar Girls . Its simple yet effective messages of tolerance, compassion and the importance of solidarity are delivered with an infectiously positive …
Recommended When Joyce Willecombe (Nancy Olson) boards a train to Chicago, she's not expecting anything particularly exciting to happen, but as the train is arriving at one of the stations before her destination, she spots a car on the adjacent road, speeding to keep up with the train. Two men exit the car and board the train, but they enter through different doorways, and act as if they don't …
Rent It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. The last time director Antoine Fuqua and Denzel Washington worked together they created an exciting crime drama in Training Day . To echo corrupt L.A
Skip It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Director Brad Anderson's ( The Machinist , The Call ) clumsily titled Stonehearst Asylum is based on Edgar Allen Poe's short story “The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether.” Short stories tend to make narratively challenged feature films, and Anderson draws out the material to a very long 112 minutes. The …
Recommended The Movie: I recently saw the 2014 World Series film and enjoyed it enough to the point that I wanted to revisit some of the San Francisco Giants playoff run. Thankfully, A&E, Lionsgate and Major League Baseball video helped sate the appetite of this neutral of the Giants and Kansas City Royals and pored over the World Series Collector's Set diligently.
Recommended Note : Please see the audio section of this review for an update on the Blu-ray's DTS-HD 2.0 stereo track. Originally hitting the stage in 1986, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's musical Into the Woods is a comic collision of famous fairy tales, bringing Jack and his magic beanstalk into the same story as Cinderella, Rapunzel, and Little Red Riding Hood, among others. As Disney's …
Rent It Although the excitement for Winter, the incredible dolphin that survived the amputation of her tail, continues to bring the Clearwater Marine Hospital and Aquarium plenty of visitors, the excitement has settled into a familiar groove. The most recent addition to the hospital's roster is Mandy, a female dolphin found badly sunburned in the shallow waters nearby. Sawyer (Nathan Gamble) is …
Recommended Note : To promote the release of Dolphin Tale 2 , DVDTalk was sent this copy of Dolphin Tale . However, this is not a new 3D Blu-ray set; it is the same edition released back in 2011. Sawyer Nelson (Nathan Gamble) is a bit of a loner.