Rent It THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the bonus DVD included in this combo, not the Blu-ray edition under review. This might get me branded as some kind of sicko, but for a movie that apparently was almost rated NC-17, Chained is rather tame, at least in terms of onscreen gore. Lots of terrible things happen in the movie, but director Jennifer Lynch ( Boxing Helena …
Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials not the Blu-ray edition under review. The chance to peer at the building blocks of a master filmmaker’s career, particularly when it is a heretofore little seen debut film, should generate much interest and even celebration, but at the same time, it’s best to temper one’s excitement and manage …
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: There may not be an active filmmaker whose work is so immediately recognizable as Wes Anderson’s. You can walk into a room or switch over in the middle of one of his films and place it within seconds: the intricate production design, the symmetrical compositions, and the elegant tracking shots, lovingly panning from room and room and tableaux to tableaux.
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Rent It The Movie: The first feature film directed by Joe Dante in some time, 2009’s The Hole makes a slightly late debut on Blu-ray, but better late than never. If this isn’t his best movie, and few would argue that it is, it’s still a good time at the movies, a nice mix of the type of fantasy and light horror that have made a lot of Dante’s earlier pictures so much fun – but it doesn’t offer …
Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less It’s not about whether you win or lose Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: David Fincher, The Game , The Criterion Collection Likes: Michael Douglas, Conspiracy theories Dislikes: Hates: The Criterion laserdiscs we don’t have on DVD/Blu-Ray The Movie On any average day, if you asked me what David Fincher’s first film was, I would probably say The Game . Se7en , his …
Highly Recommended Steel Magnolias Blu-ray Review SteelMagnolias is a heartfelt story about the complex lives ofseveral women who live inside the small Louisiana town of Chinquapin.This is astory about these characters uniquely important relationships and allabout theconnection between the characters as they develop as people. The storyaroundthe film is almost a side-product of the development …
Rent It THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional stills provided by Sony Pictures Classics, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Recommended Lewis returns to Blu-ray with four more movie-length episodes. An ITV co-production with PBS’s Masterpiece Mystery , it airs on the public television network in a slightly different form
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review.