Recommended A remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s Dial M for Murder (1954) and the Frederick Knott play from which it was derived, A Perfect Murder (1998) cannily reconfigures its plot and characters for a much more cynical, modern day audience. Patrick Smith Kelly’s screenplay deviates from its source quite a bit, but the results aren’t terrible
Recommended In 10 Words or Less Making a movie from a game works with talented people Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Madeline Kahn, Tim Curry, Clue Likes: Everyone else in the movie Dislikes: Extra-less Blu-Rays Hates: Missing Kahn The Movie It seems like Clue finds its way before my eyes every now and then, and I remember that it’s one of my favorite movies, starring some of my favorite actors, before …
Recommended Rob Gordon (John Cusack) is, by most accounts, a pretty unlikable guy. He’s deceitful, manipulative, self-centered, neurotic, callous and insensitive. He’s just been through an unexpected breakup with a longtime girlfriend, so he’s naturally doing a bit of self-reflection to figure out where everything went drastically, dreadfully wrong
DVD Talk Collector Series THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are stills provided by StudioCanal or from the film’s original promotion, and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. “Frontiers are an invention of Man; Nature doesn’t give a damn.” – Rosenthal, La Grande illusion In some strange but salient way, Jean Renoir’s 1937 masterpiece, which has at its center a trio of …
Highly Recommended Despite its distinction of being Jean Renoir’s first American film — not to mention one of Fox’s biggest moneymakers from the class of 1941 — Swamp Water has somehow managed to long languish in obscurity. Dismissed by [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] Read the entire review