Trust (Blu-ray)
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials and filmmaker Hal Hartley’s website , not the Blu-ray edition under review.
January 23, 2013
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Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials and filmmaker Hal Hartley’s website , not the Blu-ray edition under review.
Rent It THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. In an interview for Taken 2 , Liam Neeson said he didn’t want to make a “sloppy sequel.” I guess that didn’t quite work out, Liam. Pierre Morel’s original Taken is an unexpectedly great thriller with solid characters and an interesting story to support its slick action.
Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. Choderlos de Laclos first published the novel Les liaisons dangereurses , a story of sexual intrigue and the wicked games of the French upper classes, in 1782. It has been adapted to stage, television, and cinema multiple times, perhaps most famously as the 1988 …
Highly Recommended A pretty good B-Western featuring John Wayne, very early in his starring career, The New Frontier (1935) breaks no new ground but is well made for its budget level. Indeed, it’s fairly lavish by Republic Pictures’ standards, the studio then just getting started itself, the company having been founded earlier that year when Consolidated Film Laboratories president Herbert J …
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. William Wyler’s 1942 drama Mrs.
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. There are certain trajectories that we expect rock ‘n’ roll stories to take. Of course, the most common are of young men dreaming big and going nowhere
Recommended Driving Miss Daisy Blu-ray Review Clickon an image to view a Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution DrivingMiss Daisy Read the entire review
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. The easy chemistry between Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pe a draws you into the lives of their characters – two LAPD officers who work a particularly rough part of South Central Los Angeles – and sells the gritty reality of David Ayer’s End of Watch , a particularly resonant cop drama that makes first …
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. A few years after Wes Craven directed The Last House on the Left and The Hills Have Eyes but before his big breakout, A Nightmare on Elm Street , he made Deadly Blessing , which is more interesting as a precursor of what’s to come than an effective horror …
Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. A doctor getting a god complex is a well-worn genre trope, explored in movies as far apart as Stanley Kramer’s Not as a Stranger (1955) and the Alec Baldwin vehicle Malice (1995). With those movies, the story usually involves the docs overestimating their power to …