ReviewsJul 17, 2013
TOUCH - DVD review
Sometimes you can feel a movie teetering on the brink, balancing on that mysterious knife-edge of story and character, just one small tonal shift away from a different, and usually lesser, film. **“T
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ReviewsJul 16, 2013
G.I. JOE: RETALIATION - Blu-ray review
“G.I. Joe: Retaliation” is a very loud, over-stylized and more or less ridiculous action film that pushes almost every limit you can think of as it relates to suspending your disbelief. I’ll admit
ReviewsJul 16, 2013
LAST RESORT: THE COMPLETE SERIES - DVD review
Though “Last Resort” started slowly, many industry experts expected that steady growth in a tough time slot opposite Fox’s “X Factor” and NBC’s back-to-back sitcoms (“The Big Bang Theory” / “Two a
ReviewsJul 16, 2013
NORTH FACE - Blu-ray review
The mountain climbing genre has its fair share of examples, from "The Eiger Sanction" to "Vertical Limit" to the over the top "Cliffhanger. " There is a trifecta of innate occurrences in this particul
ReviewsJul 15, 2013
THE MAGIC FLUTE (2006) - DVD review
Five years after Baz Luhrmann went crazy and cranked out the eccentric and slightly surrealistic musical “Moulin Rouge!,” director Kenneth Branagh did something similar with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s
ReviewsJul 13, 2013
SAFETY LAST! - Blu-ray review
Belief is an irrelevant concept in the era of computer-generated cinema, but back in an age when the movies still had something to do with photography audiences believed in Harold Lloyd. For a gruelin
ReviewsJul 13, 2013
NEW WORLD - DVD review
South Korean director Park Hoon-jeong is on record as saying that he’s a big fan of “The Godfather” saga, and “New World” is his stylish entry into the gangster/mafia genre. Though billed as a thr
ReviewsJul 11, 2013
KIND HEARTED WOMAN - DVD review
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” --Plato In the documentary “Kind Hearted Woman,” director David Sutherland’s shines a light on the close-quarter battles of Robin Charbonne
ReviewsJul 10, 2013
THE LIFE OF OHARU - Blu-ray review
The opening credits of Kenji Mizoguchi's “Sansho the Bailiff” (1954) informed viewers that the 11th century-set film took place in “an era when mankind had not yet awakened as human beings.” Mizoguchi
ReviewsJul 09, 2013
SHOLEM ALEICHEM: LAUGHING IN THE DARKNESS - DVD review
I'm pretty sure the talking heads interviewed for this documentary agreed to participate for one main reason: they really like to say the name Sholem Aleichem. And why not? It rhymes and it's got that
ReviewsJul 08, 2013
BULLET TO THE HEAD - Blu-ray review
Every so often, a movie comes along that doesn’t really leave any grey area in its title. Basically, what I’m saying is that some films more or less tell you exactly what they’re about at face value,
ReviewsJul 08, 2013
PHANTOM - Blu-ray review
“Phantom” (2013), which is “inspired by actual events,” tries to tell the story of a Cold War-era Soviet submarine voyage that almost launched WWIII. But a hokey script laden down with clichés sin