Rent It In 10 Words or Less Every parent’s nightmare, every teen’s dream Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Frat House Likes: Todd Phillips, Found-footage films Dislikes: Teenagers Hates: Anarchy, a lack of reality, high-school popularity The Movie The first time I’d ever heard of Todd Phillips was when a saw his film Frat House , which he made with Andrew Gurland ( The Virginity Hit , The Last Exorcism …
Skip It THE FILM: Please Note: All of the images used here are from the accompanying standard-definition DVD and are not taken from the Blu-ray under review. Director Curtis Hanson’s Emmy-nominated 2011 HBO film, Too Big to Fail , sounded so potentially promising. Sure, Hanson has had a checkered career, but it’s had more than its share of peaks, encompassing such worthy accomplishments as L.A …
DVD Talk Collector Series THE FILM: Please Note: All of the images used here are from promotional materials and are not taken from the Blu-ray under review. Astutely predicting the outcry that would surely erupt from various Charlie Chaplin purists and completists were they to have put out only one Gold Rush or the other, Criterion is now releasing the 1925 classic as what amounts to one Blu-ray …
Recommended The Movies: Hot on the heels of their Blood Trilogy Blu-ray release, Something Weird Video once again returns to the well that is the filmography of Herschell Gordon Lewis with a high definition double feature release of The Wizard Of Gore and The Gore Gore Girls .
Rent It The movie’s called Underworld: Awakening and all that, so why does it keep putting me to sleep? That’s kind of the weird thing about this fourth — fourth! — installment in the vampires-in-this-corner-werewolves-in-the-other franchise. If you asked me to rattle off a laundry list of all the stuff Read the entire review
Recommended Reviewed by Glenn Erickson The crows in Dumbo might have been predicting a major theme for the 1940s when they prescribed a new approach to problem solving: “Cology! You know, Psy – cology!” Psychiatry, psychology and related mental manias were made a factor in thrillers, domestic dramas, even westerns. And as film noir favored characters suffering from angst, alienation and …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. An old-fashioned, progressive social-problem film, Mario Monicelli’s energetic, down-to-earth 1963 strike drama The Organizer combines the lyrical beauty of socialist realism with a Neorealist tough-mindedness of sensibility, avoiding the much-maligned slack …