Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are promotional stills provided by Sony Pictures Classics and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. One of the movie moments that made the deepest impressions on me as a youngster/budding cinephile was the few minutes in Woody Allen’s Crimes and Misdemeanors where Judah (Martin Landau) revisits a scene from his …
DVD Talk Collector Series THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are promotional and are not taken from the Blu-ray under review. In the midst of Turkish writer/director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s ( Climates , Three Monkeys ) epically restrained crime drama/road trip of the soul, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia , its ostensibly central murder-investigation plot takes one more in a series of strange …
Recommended The Movie: Project X is the story of a couple of high school losers composed of Thomas (Thomas Mann), Costa (Oliver Cooper), JB (Jonathan Brown), and Dax (Dax Flame). Ha, I just noticed that everyone used their real names, with exception to Costa.
Rent It The Movie: The third and final film in Sam Raimi’s trilogy, 2007’s Spider-Man 3 picks up where the second film left off and catches up with Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) as he’s started to build his life back together after things got pretty dismal for him. He’s started to rebuild his relationship with Mary Jane (Kirstin Dunst), the love of his life, and he’s more comfortable in his role …
Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less A love letter to the cinema Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Good old movies, John Goodman Likes: Jean Dujardin, B r nice Bejo Dislikes: Silent films Hates: Hollywood self-celebration The Movie Flipping over the slipcover on this release reveals a pile of plaudits, from several “best movie of the year” declarations to 28 major award wins, including five Academy …
Recommended As Clint Eastwood movies go, Blood Work (2002) is decidedly minor.
Rent It In 10 Words or Less Every parent’s nightmare, every teen’s dream Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Frat House Likes: Todd Phillips, Found-footage films Dislikes: Teenagers Hates: Anarchy, a lack of reality, high-school popularity The Movie The first time I’d ever heard of Todd Phillips was when a saw his film Frat House , which he made with Andrew Gurland ( The Virginity Hit , The Last Exorcism …
Skip It THE FILM: Please Note: All of the images used here are from the accompanying standard-definition DVD and are not taken from the Blu-ray under review. Director Curtis Hanson’s Emmy-nominated 2011 HBO film, Too Big to Fail , sounded so potentially promising. Sure, Hanson has had a checkered career, but it’s had more than its share of peaks, encompassing such worthy accomplishments as L.A …
Recommended In 10 Words or Less Tosh.0 on Blu-Ray is overkill Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Funny internet clips Likes: Daniel Tosh, Tosh.0 , Web Soup Dislikes: Gross-out comedy, viewer videos Hates: Clip-show bits The Show Once upon a time, there were TV shows hosted by comedians that featured internet content as far as the eye could see, with Web Junk 20 , Web Soup and Tosh.0 .
Highly Recommended Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s seven-part, 14-hour The War (2007) attempts to document the American perspective of World War II in the same signature style Burns (and sometimes Novick) has brought to other subjects, like Jazz (2001), Baseball (1994/2010) and, most famously, The Civil War (1990). In attempting to distinguish itself from other made-for-television documentaries …