Highly Recommended Don Juan Demarco Review Iwanted to begin thisreview with a slant on how Don Juan Demarco is that rareexception tothe rule; a genuinely surprising and satisfying romantic comedy. Butit’s tooaffecting and whimsical to merely be referred to alongside the likes ofschlocklike Fool’s Gold (2008), Alex and Emma (2003), and FailuretoLaunch (2006). Okay, so I technically just did …
Recommended The Show: Â I’ve always been a fan of harem anime.
Highly Recommended Madonna: Truth or Dare Blu-ray Review Madonna is one of the most well lovedmusic acts in the history of pop music. Her albums continue to top thebillboardsales charts with each release
Recommended Wizards Blu-ray Review RalphBakshi certainly seemed to recognize unique ways to createsci-fi/fantasyworlds in animation. Wizards doesn’t necessarilyseem reminiscent of anything else. Perhaps other Ralph Bakshi movies?Even thatdoesn’t seem to be a positive given because of how this particularfilmmakingexperience was aimed at appealing more directly to families and a wideraudiencethan …
Highly Recommended The Ring Blu-ray Review Have you heard the story of the haunted videotape? Peoplesay that it carries a curse with it. The idea might sound silly to someyoungeraudiences today, but The Ring introduced a terrifying concept: after viewing a video with frighteningandseemingly random images it led to a phone call with an ominous andforebodingvoice on the other end of the line.
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from promotional materials and the 2009 DVD release , not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Rent It THE FILM: Whitney Houston’s first acting role was a good fit: She played international music and film superstar Rachel Marron, a vulnerable diva whose life was threatened by a crazed fan, alongside Kevin Costner as her tireless protector in Director Mick Jackson’s The Bodyguard . Critics were not kind to the film, but it raked in over $400 million in worldwide receipts and its soundtrack …
Highly Recommended The Movies: Written and directed by comic book impresario Joann Sfar in 2010 (making this his directorial debut feature), Gainsbourg – a Heroic Life (or, if you prefer the original language title, Gainsbourg -Vie Heroique ) takes on the fairly unfilmable life of the late, great French musician, singer, songwriter and ladies man Serge Gainsbourg. The film begins during the …
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Roman Polanski’s Carnage begins at what appears to be the end. Two pairs of parents, the Longstreets (Jodie Foster and John C. Reilly) and the Cowans (Kate Winslet and Christoph Waltz), have met at the former’s apartment because their two sons have had a fight
Highly Recommended As sometimes happens, I’m reviewing the British (and Irish) mystery series George Gently (2007-present) out of sequence. I examined Series 2 , a DVD release, in May 2010, and then took a gander at Series 3 , on Blu-ray, in June 2011