Highly Recommended The Movie: On the surface, the plot of The Immigrant sounds like one of those cheesy period melodramas that the senior-aged audience eats up: A pure immigrant woman comes to New York during the early 1920s and has to become a prostitute in order to save her beloved sick sister from deportation. Just by reading the logline, one can easily imagine scenes full of operatic tragedy …
Skip It Goodbye to Language 3D/2D Blu-ray Review There are few filmmakers who have had the level ofprestigeand importance in the history of filmmaking as Jean Luc Godard has had.As oneof the leaders at the forefront of the French New Wave in the 1960's,Godardhelped usher in a whole new style of filmmaking that has proved to begroundbreakingand influential for generations of filmmakers to come …
Recommended THE FILM: Hollywood has long dramatized the lives of unremarkable men with ease, but often stumbles when retelling the story of someone truly exceptional. Filming the life of Louis “Louie” Zamperini is no easy task. The former United States Olympian survived a plane crash in World War II, only to be stranded on a raft for 47 days before he was sent to a Japanese internment camp …
Recommended Note: images are from promotional sources and do not reflect the quality of the Blu Ray under review. The Movie: You take the good, you take the bad, you take two unhappily married people stranded in Acapulco and whatta you have? 1960's The Facts of Life was the result, the third onscreen teaming for comedy legends Bob Hope and Lucille Ball.
Recommended THE FILM: After getting shot by a Richard Nixon-masked bank robber during a heist, LAPD officer Dennis Meechum (Brian Dennehy) turns his account of the events into a bestselling novel. Years later, Meechum is a successful detective looking for a hit follow-up novel but lacking inspiration
Recommended THE FILM: Robert Duvall gives a highly underrated performance as Soll Gautier, a senile plantation farmer, in Peter Masterson's Convicts , which is based on a play by Horton Foote. A young Lukas Haas plays thirteen-year-old Horace Robedaux, who comes to Gautier's plantation to earn the $12.50 he needs to pay for a headstone on his father's grave. Dementia takes a heavy toll on the …
Rent It Genshiken Second Generation Blu-ray Review Genshiken Second Generation is actually asequelseries to the Genshiken anime production. While it's officiallyconsidered a “second season” it's actually the third season producedand there's even an OVA spin-off which preceded it as well. (The seriesevenmakes a referential joke to this odd fact in one of the episodepreviews.) Â It's a …
Recommended The photos accompanying this review are taken from promotional materials and do not reflect the quality of the Blu-ray under review. The Movie: Why has the goofy 1989 comedy Troop Beverly Hills remained a perennial favorite for over two and a half decades
Recommended THE FILM: Ah, My Girl . A film I remember really liking when I was 11. Now that I am pushing 30, some of its charms have worn off, though it remains a decent coming-of-age story