Hysteria (Blu-ray)
Rent It THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional stills provided by Sony Pictures Classics, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
September 4, 2012
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Rent It THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional stills provided by Sony Pictures Classics, not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Skip It THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. If you’ve ever been on the fence about having kids, seeing The Babymakers will make up your mind
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from stills and other promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. It has an abandoned battleship, not a locomotive, as its perpetually in-motion, out-of-control set, but Buster Keaton’s 1924 feature The Navigator — the last occasion on which he shared directing credit before going full auteur for the …
Highly Recommended My “memories” of Quadrophenia are by association only. I had never seen the movie until this Blu-ray release from The Criterion Collection, but I had been aware of it – perhaps excessively so – thanks to the neo-Mods of my teenage years. This was in the early 1990s, and although it would be easy enough to label these neo-Mods as misguided poseurs (which they most certainly …
Highly Recommended Pocahontas Blu-ray Review Disney’s Pocahontas may not be the mostfaithful telling of the story imaginable (for some that follow history”to thebooks” and expect filmmakers to entirely follow suite that might evenseem a gigantic understatement) but it is acreative, visionary, and beautiful film about the discovery of the “newworld”in America by Spanish explorers and the …
Rent It The tagline on the back of the Quick Blu-Ray proclaims: “It’s Speed on a motorcycle!” Although that easy-to-digest line certainly paints a picture for the prospective viewer, I don’t think it’s the right picture. Speed is certainly a silly movie, but it plays its central conflict straight: Will Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, and a busful of character actors get blown to bits? Quick spins …