Highly Recommended Joseph Anthony’s compelling Tomorrow (1972) is by no means a comfortable film, or at least it’s not supposed to be. Long stretches of silence are occasionally broken by awkward, thickly-accented dialogue. Shooting locations are rustic, run-down and lonely
Highly Recommended The Movie: Hitting Blu-ray a few short weeks before the 70th Anniversary of D-Day, director Stuart Cooper’s 1975 drama Overlord , which covers the lead-up to that famous battle at Normandy, is decidedly unsentimental, somewhat anticlimactic, yet undeniably beautiful. Starting with deftly edited archive footage from England’s Imperial War Museum, Cooper weaves in newly-shot …
Rent It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. The production design, effects and camera work in Director Fedor Bondarchuk’s Stalingrad are top notch; the narrative and characters, less so
Highly Recommended Il Sorpasso Blu Review Il Sorpasso is regarded as one of thefinest of allItalian comedies. Released in 1962, the film was first put intotheaters withlittle fanfare and box-office expectations. The film quickly became anincredible success based on audiences reactions and word of mouth thatthe filmwas something special
Recommended The Movie: As an honorably discharged soldier from approximately a gajillion years ago, I have a soft spot for war films released before and since my time in the service.
DVD Talk Collector Series In 10 Words or Less Back to the depths, this time on Blu-ray Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Jeff Goldblum, The Criterion Collection Likes: Bill Murray, Wes Anderson, most of this cast Dislikes: Getting no new extras Hates: Not a whole lot about this movie The Movie Currently sitting at six, but likely to reach eight with the inevitable releases of Moonrise Kingdom and The …
Highly Recommended The Mini-Series: Back in 2006, the first sketch aired on the British comedy series That Mitchell and Webb Look , starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb of the popular sitcom Peep Show , portrayed two Nazis on the Russian front some time during the wane of World War II.
Rent It THE FILM: There is little to distinguish Bachelor Party from the horde of 1980s crude comedies except one thing, and it is a doozy: Tom Hanks. Fresh off the success of Splash , Hanks joined a cast of relatively unknowns in Director Neal Israel’s low-budget comedy that is surprisingly light on laughs. If anything, Bachelor Party is an interesting time capsule, and Hanks manages to inject …
Skip It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Michael Caine is the star of the original 1971 Get Carter and stars in this 2000 remake with Sylvester Stallone in the lead as mob enforcer Jack Carter. The original was gritty and exciting; this one not so much.
Recommended The Movie: Written and directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet and released theatrically in 1970, Eden And After is one of the stranger films in the filmmaker’s already bizarre filmography. The beginning of the film is centered around the appropriately titled Eden Caf , a coffee house that attracts a crowd of art students who seem to appreciate its anti-social sensibilities