Rent It The Film: While Daniel Radcliffe revealed steady growth in his acting capabilities during the progression of the Harry Potter series of films, it's only throughout the past year-plus that he's revealed the versatile nature of his cinematic talent. From his transformative performance as Allen Ginsbergn in Kill Your Darlings to a subtler application of his innate charms in What If , the …
DVD Talk Collector Series Poirot Complete Blu-ray Review Agatha Christie's Poirot: Complete Cases Collection is easilythe most ultimate set for fans of the long-running mystery seriesPoirot. Thecollection features all 70 episodes (which represents all of thematerial thatwas written by Christie featuring the character) and in the originalbroadcastorder. The series began airing as a British ITV …
Recommended Like most folks born during the last several decades, I grew up watching syndicated Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies whenever possible. These bite-sized cartoons set the bar extremely high for American animation during the 20th century, rivaled only by other long-running classics like Popeye the Sailor Read the entire review
Recommended The Series: HBO's vampire fantasy/soap opera series True Blood ran seven seasons from 2008 until just this year, 2014.
Highly Recommended Fairy Tail Part 13 Blu-ray Review Fairy Tail is an action-adventure-comedy series which follows a group of wizardswho areall a part of the popular and renowned Fairy Tail guild, where magicbeings with special gifts all work together on various jobs andmissionsfor the non-magic folk of the world — these talented people work asone toface enemy guilds (the type who use …
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DVD Talk Collector Series Well this is a treat! As a movie, Dragonfly Squadron (1954) is fairly ordinary, a war movie with a familiar story and genre stereotypes: hardline, humorless commanding officer; sly second-in-command, subordinate with a personal grudge against his commanding officer, a woman emotionally torn between the dedicated, self-sacrificing doctor she married and the commanding …
Recommended Adapted from Sidney “I Dream of Jeannie” Sheldon's first novel, published in 1970, The Naked Face (1984) is a fairly good little thriller, not great, but better than one would have expected from Cannon Films, a company known primarily for its Charles Bronson and Chuck Norris action-exploitation films. The Naked Face has its share of flaws and its central mystery isn't all that …
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. Martin Ritt's 1961 jazz-infused drama Paris Blues is one of those films that, once you've seen it, you're kind of shocked that people don't talk about it more
Highly Recommended Like most Americans, my first exposure to Erik Skjoldbjerg's Insomnia (1997) was via Criterion's 1999 DVD ; through no small coincidence, it was around the time Christopher Nolan's 2002 remake hit theaters (but, for the life of me, I can't remember which one I actually saw first). Either way, I'm glad that both exist and, unlike the wide difference in quality between most …