Skip It To be clear upfront: there's no question that Iceman , a Hong Kong action-comedy released in its home country in 3D, is a patently silly movie. The story follows He Ying, a Ming Dynasty royal guard, who, after being wrongfully accused of treason and sentenced to death, ends up caught in a blizzard along with his former friends and is frozen alive for 400 years, re-awakening in 2013 to a …
Highly Recommended In 10 Words or Less “Weird Al”'s cinematic highlight Reviewer's Bias* Loves: “Weird Al” Yankovic, UHF Likes: Sketch films Dislikes: Anniversary editions light on new content Hates: The disappearance of low-budget UHF stations The Story So Far… UHF was released on DVD in June of 2002, and DVDTalk has a review of that release . The Movie Though at first glance it makes little …
Highly Recommended The Movie: It's beyond a doubt that Dog Day Afternoon is a timeless masterpiece that revolutionized the bank robbery genre and is one of the most important works of 70s American cinema, thought by many, myself included, to be the greatest period in film history. Considering Sidney Lumet is one of my top five favorite directors and Dog Day Afternoon is my second favorite film …
Recommended The Movie: Made two years after the seminal Re-Animator and once again produced by Charles Band and Empire Pictures, Stuart Gordon's Dolls is part horror movie, part black comedy and part fairy tale and while it does tend to lean towards the clich s often associated with horror films, that doesn't diminish the film's entertainment value.
Recommended NOTE: The images featured here were taken from promotional materials and do not reflect the quality of the Blu-ray under review. The Movie: Land Ho! is mumblecore for the post-middle-aged
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. Serge Bourguignon's Sundays and Cyb le , a 1962 drama that went on to win the Best Foreign Language Oscar the following year, is a unique movie. The only other film it brings to mind is Ren Cl ment's Forbidden Games , the tale of two young …
Recommended THE FILM: Perhaps Sylvester Stallone should recruit Christopher Walken if he makes another Expendables film. Fresh off an Academy Award win for The Deer Hunter , Walken played a mercenary for John Irvin in The Dogs of War . This meat-and-potatoes thriller sees Walken battling a ruthless African dictator and shady international business tycoons while his personal life crumbles
Skip It THE FILM: With Jason Segel and Cameron Diaz as the leads, I assumed there would be plenty of laughs in Jake Kasdan's comedy about a missing sex tape. I was wrong
Recommended The Movie: Produced by Roger Corman and directed by Jack Hill (under the pseudonym of Brian Stuart and the last film he's directed to date), 1982's Sorceress follows two twins, Mira and Mara (Leigh Harris and her twin sister Lynette respectively) who, as children, were to be sacrificed to the dark god Caligara, worshipped by their father, Traigon (Roberto Ballesteros), a sorcerer …
Recommended Everyone's done plenty of stupid things despite the fear of being caught, but Michel (Martin LaSalle) just happens to do such things for a living. He's a pickpocket by trade; first by himself, then—after his arrest and subsequent release, due to lack of evidence—with a pair of highly skilled thieves (Henri Kassagi and Pierre Etaix). Aside from the thrill of his dangerous …