Gale Ann Hurd rose to the pinnacle of Hollywood by producing some of the biggest and brashest films in history, none more so than “The Terminator,†directed by her then-husband James Cameron. “They can see the iceberg coming,†Hurd told TheWrap at Comic-Con. She has moved on to television, producing “The Walking Dead,†the highest-rated cable show in America.
Not every movie can be The Hunger Games. You might not have heard of them, or you might’ve written them off?either way, here are the movies of 2013 that deserved more eyeballs.
Rent It Oh, Movie! You had me [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] at ” Frankenstein’s Army “.
DVD Talk Collector Series Submarine movies come in all shapes and sizes, from the highs of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) and The Enemy Below (1957, really half a submarine movie) to the depths of Hellcats of the Navy (1957, not nearly as bad as its reputation) and the absurdities of Atomic Submarine (1960). But Ren Cl ment’s The Damned (1947) is the most authentic submarine movie I’ve ever …
Highly Recommended It seems a bit odd reviewing a Blu-ray disc that sold out even before this reviewer received his own copy in the mail, but hopefully that’s an indicator of Columbia/Sony need to reissue movies like this on its own, or at least allow current distributor Twilight Time another print run. It’s also a sure sign that Body Double (1984), a Brian De Palma movie raked over the coals by …
Highly Recommended It seems a bit odd reviewing a Blu-ray disc that sold out even before this reviewer received his own copy in the mail, but hopefully that’s an indicator of Columbia/Sony need to reissue movies like this on its own, or at least allow current distributor Twilight Time another print run. It’s also a sure sign that Body Double (1984), a Brian De Palma movie raked over the coals by …
DVD Talk Collector Series One of the real finds on Blu-ray this year is The Disappearance (1977), a heretofore almost impossible to see Canadian-British co-production starring Donald Sutherland as an assassin-for-hire whose effectiveness is compromised when his wife inexplicably disappears. Despite handsome production values and a top-flight cast of Canadian and British actors, actor-turned …
A bunch of new releases come to DVD and Blu-ray, including the Disney’s billion-dollar blockbuster, ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.’ Also this week, ‘The Crow’ makes its way to Blu-ray.