Rent It Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials and other sources, not the Blu-ray edition under review. The Movie: The artist's urge to create, despite overwhelming resistance from the outside world, gets a sympathetic if plodding treatment in the biopic Vincent & Theo .
DVD Talk Collector Series The Connection (1961) is a historically significant if very stagey and virtually unreleased feature directed and edited by independent experimental filmmaker Shirley Clarke (1919-1997). An adaptation of Jack Gelber's 1959 Obie-winning play, the entire story takes place in a grungy New York loft – there are no exteriors and no other sets – where junkies, including jazz …
Highly Recommended The Movie: 1975's Love and Death is probably the oddest film of Woody Allen's “early funny ones,” but, pound for pound, it is also probably the funniest. Set in Russia during the Napoleonic Wars, Love and Death features a smorgasbord of smarty-pants riffs on philosophy, literature, and cinema, Marxian (as in Groucho) double-talk, and slapstick setpieces that rival the work of …
Highly Recommended The Road to Hong Kong (1962) was the seventh and final Road for stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. The others – Road to Singapore (1940), Road to Zanzibar (1941), Road to Morocco (1942), Road to Utopia (1946), Road to Rio (1947), and Road to Bali (1952) – were all made at Paramount, in Hollywood, while The Road to Hong Kong was filmed in England and released by United Artists …
Highly Recommended Take a blanket, made for two now, Add a boy and a girl.
Rent It The Movie: If you're unfamiliar with Fellini's work and would like to begin somewhere, watching Satyricon first would probably be the worst choice. With Satyricon, Fellini's late 60s eccentric and experimental phase reached its peak, creating a fascinatingly yet frustratingly disconnected and incoherent oddity that resembled more of an LSD-induced fever dream sci-fi/fantasy than a …
Rent It The impending Valentine's Day release of Sam Taylor-Johnson's big-screen adaptation of the controversial E.L. James novel Fifty Shades of Grey has the internet in thinkpiece mode. Does S&M glorify abuse and violence
Rent It The Movie: I would like to take the time to thank Jon Stewart for announcing his departure from The Daily Show , off to undertake endeavors that are unknown to me. Not because of his time spent on the show which mind you, was prodigious, but that he managed to give an unknown amount of dum-dums like myself some form of segue and/or introduction to the last notable time Stewart left his …
Recommended For a number of years I lived in and around Hollywood, surrounded by neighbors with big dreams. Many were would-be actors who had moved to Southern California from other parts of the country, convinced they were an audition away from becoming the next Johnny Depp or Julia Roberts, though they always spent a lot more time working on their tan around the swimming pool talking about it …
Recommended The Movies: Shout! Factory's Scream Factory imprint celebrates the humorous side of the horror movie with this double dose of vampire comedy films presented on a single Blu-ray disc.