Archive for the ‘DVD Releases’ Category
Friday, October 24th, 2008
The Three Stooges Collection, Vol. 4: 1943–1945; two discs; Sony Pictures; $24.96(Richard Burton voice): “So you want to know about the war, do you? 1943–45: The pie of doom, hurled by the mailed fist of the Allies, sailed inexorably, soon to cover the face of the Third Reich in dripping ...
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
I’m tempted to blame this overly arch killers-on-the-run pastiche on the baleful influence of Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction and Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers, but since they all came out in 1994, I suppose that the zeitgeist is the real culprit—with 1993’s Kalifornia as accomplice. Gil Bellows plays Watty Watts, ...
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
Pleasure DomeMax Ophuls’ camera never had time to stand still in 1952’s ‘Le Plaisir’In his 1952 French feature, Le Plaisir, director Max Ophuls stitches together three stories by Guy de Maupassant to form an elegiac secular altarpiece dedicated to a kind of Heraclitan notion of life as always in flux and ...
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Thursday, September 11th, 2008
Having waded through a lot of bad DVDs lately (Lionsgate has some serious karma to deal with; and when I'm fully recovered we will discuss the magnificent low-budgetness of Bram Stoker's Dracula's Guest), I have settled on my favorite new euphemim: "Look for it on DVD!" Roughly translated, that means: ...
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Desperate to find something to watch, I went all Southern Drive-in on my Netflix queue and ordered up 1975's Framed, directed by and starring the Walking Tall team of director Phil Karlson and Joe Don Baker. How bad could it be? After all, Karlson made a couple of top-notch crime-noirs: ...
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
Always on the lookout for cinematic portrayals of the oft-maligned newspaper editor, I was pleased to see 1948's That Wonderful Urge (part of a great new 10-film set of Tyrone Power movies from 20th Century Fox). As the rapscallionesque scandal reporter Tom-Tom Tyler, Power bedevils Duffy (vet character actor Lloyd ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Juno what, homeskillet? The Juno backlash is finally taking over, and we were here first! Most recently, this script from the resurgent Cracked.com ("Crimson River Abortion Clinic, may I help you?" "Whoa, whoa, whoa, I don't think you heard me. I'm talking on a HAMBURGER PHONE! How zany is ...
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
The Warner Bros. comedy Picture Snatcher (1933), with Jimmy Cagney, now out on a extras-filled DVD from Warner Home Video, is as fresh and breezy as the day it came out—full of cocksure posturing, rat-a-tat slangy dialogue and plenty of healthy sexual bantering. The story of a ...
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
While writing this listing for the indie horror flick The Signal on Metroactive's movie reviews index page, I snuck in a jab at VH1:
This horror flick is about strange broadcasts that drive viewers insane. Yeah, too many VH1 marathons of 'I Love New York' and 'Flavor of Love' will do ...
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
I've been avoiding campaign ads for the sake of my mental health, but I did run across an amazing political artifact in the fascinating new DVD collection Saved From the Flames (Flicker Alley). This compilation of nitrate-stock oddities includes Hell-Bent for Election, a 12-minute pro-FDR cartoon from 1944, animated by ...
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