Views of Manhattan in three different eras are offered in a trio of recent releases from the boutique label Twilight Time, which has now added titles licensed from MGM to…
According to Stanley Kramer’s widow, Kramer was challenged by a friend in the press to make It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World . No one could possibly believe that the man who gave us The Defiant Ones , Inherit the Wind , and Judgement at Nuremberg could do a comedy.
Highly Recommended The Film: There’s a strong urge to work in the words “exhilarating” and “adrenaline” at the very beginning of a review about Ron Howard’s Rush , mostly because they’re descriptors typically out of place for the director’s style … and, boy, the fact that they so aptly fit this one needs to be hammered home. Granted, one might assume that it’d be difficult to create a film …
The CBGB Music & Film Festival have revealed the film lineup for this year’s festival
When Now You See Me arrived in theaters, the trailers had a great hook to them to get our attention. Yet, despite that, magicians with a caper plot seemed out of place.
This isn’t a major week of releases for DVD and Blu-ray, but there’s some solid films worth checking out. For those who like action movies, there’s a Walter Hill film you may have missed in the theater, while Sony’s “Mastered in 4K†experiment continues.
DVD Talk Collector Series THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. After unsuccessfully pitching The Producers to several studios and directors, Mel Brooks decided to direct the project – then titled Springtime for Hitler – himself
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Thankfully, this week features some choice titles for the DVD Shopping Bag.
Highly Recommended THE FILM Please Note: The images used here are from stills provided by Sony Pictures Classics and visuals from other promotional sources; are not taken from the current Blu-ray edition under review; and are generally not representative of the intentionally videotape-level quality of the film’s actual look. If the hugely successful (artistically and popularly) Mad Men mines …