Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from promotional materials provided by Fox Searchlight, not the Blu-ray edition under review. Sean Durkin’s Martha Marcy May Marlene is the kind of film that, in a better world, would be showered with Oscars and have the whole culture (not just the little patch of movie-reviewer land that, for example, yours truly …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from the standard-definition 2005 DVD edition , not the new Blu-ray release under review. Although M has to be my favorite Fritz lang film, period, and I wouldn’t give up Metropolis or Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler for anything, there is a part of me that’s tempted to concur with the critic Dave Kehr’s assertion that …
DVD Talk Collector Series THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the film’s promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. The next time you hear someone grousing about how movies are only supposed to be 90 minutes long and anything over two hours is an affront to their patience, hand them a copy of Otto Preminger’s Anatomy of a Murder . After they have sat …
The ‘Toy Story’ trilogy re-releases in 3D and ‘Hook’ finally reaches the Blu-ray format in this week’s DVD/Blu-ray releases.