Highly Recommended The Movie: Henry V is Kenneth Branagh's much-revered directorial debut and perhaps the best of his Shakespeare adaptations. Only 29-years-old when his film was released, Branagh was already tapped by critics and audiences back then as the next Laurence Olivier
Highly Recommended Though it takes place during the American Civil War—which has no shortage of big and small screen “adaptations”, for lack of a better word—Chris Eska's The Retrieval (2013) doesn't feel like many period-specific historical dramas that have come before it.
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. David Dobkin's The Judge is the kind of stuffed-to-the-brim drama that draws critical guff
Rent It Track the Man Down (1954) is an extremely mild thriller about the manhunt following a greyhound track robbery, of interest today mainly for its cast, and because it was one of a small handful of pictures made by Republic Pictures' British subsidiary. (Presumably, Republic made films there to access funds that could only be spent in Britain.) Like the contemporaneous co-productions …