All Entries in the "DVD" Category
On DVD: Jimi Hendrix: The Guitar Hero
Narrated By: Slash
Directed By: Jon Brewer
Superlatives are overused; words like legend, greatest, master, innovator commonly get attached to average things. Jimi Hendrix however is the real deal, he is all of these things and more, unfortunately this documentary of Hendrix is quite average. For a student or raving fan of Hendrix there is a ton [...]
On DVD: The Criterion Collection: Stray Dog (Nora Inu)
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Starring Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji
Akira Kurosawa was truly one of the great directors of Japanese Cinema. After Stray Dog, Kurosawa released the following films and in this order: Rashomon, Ikiru and Seven Samurai. Unfortunately with the great success of these three films, Stray Dog is often a [...]
On DVD: Flashforward The Complete Series
Created by: Brannon Braga, David S. Goyer
Starring: Joseph Fiennes, John Cho, Sonya Walger, Christine Woods, Dominic Monaghan
Flashforward was to be the big LOST replacement water cooler series and it had some great ideas. Unfortunately the series only lasted one season. Was it a bad show or did the marketing just not support the show enough?
On DVD: Slasher
Directed by John Landis
Suzie and I first discovered this film about a hyper, alcoholic, professional car salesman at the Nashville Film Festival. Now Docurama has brought it to DVD. So he and I decided to sit down and take another look at the film and see if it holds up to our original [...]
On DVD: Tytania: Collection 1
Directed by Noboru Ishiguro
Featuring Voices by Katsuyuki Konishi, Daisuke Kishio and Takashi Kondo
Galaxy under constant military threat seeks one brave, apathetic main character to inspire long talks of rebellion.
DVD on the Edge: The Nunsploitation Collection
Cult Epics brings us this new collection on of nunsploitation films. Nunsploitation is a subgenre of the overall exploitation genre. Nunsploitation is one of those subgenres that is really the most cult of this sort of cult cinema. It’s not that it’s just so edgy or racy; it’s just a little lesser known.
DVD on the Edge: The Wim Wenders Collection Volume Two
Directed by Wim Wenders
Starring: Gerry Bamman, Natassaja Kinski, Dennis Hopper, Udo Kier
If you ever wanted to immerse yourself in the work of Wim Wenders, this is the box set that will do it. If you are familiar with the work of this prolific German filmmaker, you are in for a treat. [...]
On DVD: Shigofumi: Letters from the Departed: Complete Collection
Directed by Tatsou Sato
Featuring Voices by Kana Ueda and Yuki Matsuoka
How much do you think overnight shipping from the afterlife costs?
DVD on the Edge: Sheitan
Directed by Kim Chapiron
Starring Vincent Cassel, Oliver Bartelemy, Leila Bekhti, Roxane Mesquida
I am a big fan of Vincent Cassel. If the only performances you have seen of Cassel’s are his performances in Ocean’s Twelve or Derailed, you haven’t seen the best that this versatile French actor has to offer. After [...]
On DVD/Blu-Ray: City Island
Starring: Andy Garci, Julianna Margulies, Steven Strait, Dominik Garcia-Lorido, Ezra Miller, Emily Mortimer, Alan Arkin
Directed By: Raymond De Felitta
This is a movie about secrets. How secrets are like a balloon, each little supporting lie is just one more breath into the balloon, and how eventually every balloon goes boom and once that happens everybody [...]
