Rent It The Movie: The trailer for 1962's Taras Bulba boldly proclaims, “Now, add a motion picture to the wonders of the world!” While “wonder” isn't a word I'd use on this panoramic tale of 16th century Russian warriors conquering in battle and in love, it's suitably impressive drama – and somewhat entertaining (at least in the first half), despite being served up with equal amounts of …
Recommended The Movie: Gary Cooper stars in 1951's sort-of-western (southeastern?) Distant Drums , an independently produced action thriller that plops a small group of soldiers in the middle of the Florida Everglades during the Second Seminole War. Forced to cope with the harsh swamp, while dodging hungry gators and murderous Seminoles, the soldiers trudge their way back to their ship after …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. I try to refrain from calling a movie “The Next…” something when writing these reviews
Rent It Few directors have had careers as unusual and eclectic as filmmaker Monte Hellman. Probably best known for Two-Lane Blacktop and his most recent feature film, Road to Nowhere , as well as producing Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs , Hellman was one of many filmmakers mentored by Roger Corman, and Hellman's early work includes titles like Beast From Haunted Cove and The Terror (in 1989 …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Jeremy Gardner's post-apocalyptic The Battery is a good movie without qualifiers, but it is a pretty great movie when you consider the budget is only $6,000.
Highly Recommended The Series: While Starz released the four different storylines of their smash hit series Spartacus individually on Blu-ray and DVD over the past few years, they've now assembled all of that material into one Complete Series boxed set release. And just to drive collector types crazy, there are some exclusive extra features included in this set that aren't available on those …
After giving the matter a rather embarrassing amount of thought, I've decided that Captain America: The Winter Soldier — new to DVD and Blu-ray this week — is actually the best of Marvel superhero films so far.
The first time I experienced a film in a movie theater with surround sound I remember thinking to myself that the home theater experience would never be able to replicate that immersion. Of course, cut to a few years later at a party at my rich uncle’s house where he’s playing movies on his home […] The post Dolby Atmos Coming To Blu-Ray and Home Theaters appeared first on /Film .
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As if you needed more incentive to buy The Avengers on DVD or Blu-ray this Tuesday, Disney and Marvel have come up with another reason. /Film is proud to exclusively debut four posters that are available only to fans who purchase the film in any of its various editions (3D Blu-ray, Blu-ray, DVD, etc.)