DVD Talk Collector Series In 10 Words or Less Harold LLoyd in one of the best silent comedies ever Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Classic comedies Likes: Harold Lloyd, good slapstick Dislikes: Most silent films Hates: Most modern slapstick The Movie If you ask most film fans who the biggest name in comedy of the silent-film era, most will likely say either Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton. Either name …
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Safety Last! (Blu-ray)
Highly Recommended THE FILM “This place isn’t haunted,” says a young man, Jo o (Gustavo John), to a potential condo buyer at one point in Brazilian writer/director Kleber Mendon a Filho’s vital, indelible debut feature-length picture, Neighboring Sounds . Jo o is putting his client’s mind at ease because of a suicide she’s heard tell of in this high-rise residential building , owned by Jo o’s …
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Neighboring Sounds (Blu-ray)
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Highly Recommended The Blue Lagoon (1980) is the story of two children, a boy and girl, marooned on a South Seas island paradise. Completely cut-off from civilization, as teenagers they instinctively learn about love and sex. Although it was an enormous hit, earning ten times its cost, it’s also quite odd in that it was marketed as one kind of film, received by audiences as something altogether …
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Total Recall (2012) (Blu-ray)
Highly Recommended Steel Magnolias Blu-ray Review SteelMagnolias is a heartfelt story about the complex lives ofseveral women who live inside the small Louisiana town of Chinquapin.This is astory about these characters uniquely important relationships and allabout theconnection between the characters as they develop as people. The storyaroundthe film is almost a side-product of the development …
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Steel Magnolias (Limited Edition) (Blu-ray)
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Recommended THE FILM: I must confess that Hocus Pocus was one of my favorite Disney movies as a child. It didn’t pander to kids, and the danger felt real
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Hocus Pocus (Blu-ray)
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Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials and the 2009 Criterion DVD edition , not the Blu-ray edition under review.
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The Last Days of Disco: The Criterion Collection (Blu-ray)
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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 …
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DVD Talk Collector Series 2011 was, unquestionably, a fantastic year for fans of classic cinema.
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Casablanca (Blu-ray)
Recommended The Film: Kathryn Stockett wrote her wildly-popular novel The Help as a way of fondly remembering the black women who helped raise her, and her close friend, director Tate Taylor, during and after the civil rights surge in the ’60s (and ’70s). Taylor obviously gets the fondness that Stockett crams into her book, because his film version follows a similar tone. While it’s still a …
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