Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Mainstream horror continued to flounder in 2014, but a number of promising independent features managed to fill the void with original chills and thrills. I really like the premise of Leigh Janiak's Honeymoon , and the uneasy, uncertain tension overshadows the somewhat disappointing ending.
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Highly Recommended Adapted from the eponymous 1975 play by Leah Napolin and Isaac Bashevis Singer—and in turn, Singer's earlier short story “Yentl the Yeshiva Boy” —Barbra Streisand's Yentl (1983) is an uncompromising personal project that's held up quite nicely during the last three decades. Our story follows Yentl Mendel (Streisand) and her father (Nehemiah Persoff) in early 20th century …
Rent It Many eighteen-year-olds are unhappy with their lives, but Nate Norman's (Jonathan Daniel Brown) unhappiness extends to the rest of his family: his mother (Amanda Tapping) waitresses and barely makes enough ends meet for a cramped home where Nate and his younger brother Phillip (Mark Hills) squeeze in among clutter and junk. Nate himself delivers pizzas, which seems like a dead end until …
Highly Recommended NOTE: The images used to accompany this article are taken from online sources and do not represent the quality of the Blu-ray under review. The Movie: While American genre filmmakers tend not to shy away from depicting violence and brutality, their gory imaginations rarely scale the heights of bodily destruction realized onscreen by their colleagues working in Asia.
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Perhaps director Jaume Collet-Serra and Liam Neeson will become the next De Niro and Scorsese or Hitchcock and Grant. They are not off to a terrible start: Unknown is a serviceable if imperfect thriller, and the pair again evokes the Master of Suspense with Non-Stop , a claustrophobic thriller set aboard a …
Recommended The Series: The fourth season of Comedy Central’s series Workaholics continues to follow the exploits of Blake Henderson (Blake Anderson), Adam DeMamp (Adam DeVine) and Anders Homvik (Anders Holm), a trio of roommates who work together in a call center for the TelAmeriCorp corporation.
Recommended Click on all images in this review for 1080p screenshtos Oh, the tortured life of Dragon Ball Z on home video. Despite being nearly 300 episodes after all was said and done, the original DVD’s trickled out with a paltry offering of 3-5 episodes per disc. Complete season sets were finally delivered in the ‘orange brick’ collection, but die-hard fans of the series began a ..
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Director Ralph Nelson’s Fate is the Hunter is based on Ernest K. Gann’s novel of the same name, but the author was so displeased with this film adaptation that he asked to be removed from its credits. Gann’s autobiography recounts his years piloting for American Airlines in the early days of commercial aviation and often reads like a fictional adventure thanks to …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Director Ralph Nelson’s Fate is the Hunter is based on Ernest K.