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 …
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 …
Highly Recommended The Movie: The Cannon Films action classic Avenging Force got a DVD release in Europe but never got upgraded from VHS in North American for whatever reason, despite the fact that it was and remains a very popular entry in their filmography. Kino-Lorber makes up for past transgressions with this release, a bit of a special edition, really, and it's about time.
Rent It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. The subterranean tunnels and crypts holding the remains of six million Parisians – known as the Catacombs of Paris – are a perfect setting for an imperfect horror film. As Above, So Below sends its young cast deep beneath the busy city streets in search of the Philosopher's Stone thought capable of turning base …
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 …