Posts Tagged “misc dvd”
I know I shouldn’t get picky about this, but for a film that wants to be as authentic about its soundtrack there are a couple of obvious mistakes. Suede’s “So Young” was from 1993, a year after the 20 year past mark the film is supposed be celebrating. Pulp’s “Do You Remember Your First Time”…
We are dropped into the middle of a case that appears to involve a Mexican cocaine smuggling ring. Mark Wahlberg and Denzel Washington are either criminals or undercover agents, and it’s not clear which is which if that is the case. Add to this a bank job that adds a couple of surprises. 2 Guns…
R.I.P.D. was a flop. It didn’t make its money at the box office. Critics for the most part lambasted it for having more style over substance as well as a lack of originality. Thing is, it’s not a bad film. It does have some flaws, but overall it’s enjoyable. A cross between Ghostbusters and…
What makes Parkland interesting is the focus on the people you don’t normally see. Sure, there’s Lyndon B. Johnson, but we get Marcia Gay Harden as Doris Nelson, the head trauma nurse at the hospital, Paul Giamatti as Abraham Zapruder, owner the most famous home video shot, Ron Livingston as FBI Agent Hosty, Jackie Earl…
Stinging from the lack of box office success with Big Trouble In Little China John Carpenter returned to his horror/thriller roots with 1987’s Prince Of Darkness. here we get a couple of familiar faces (and John Carpenter alums) Donald Pleasence and Victor Wong leading a cast that includes future Carpenter regular Peter Jason as well…
Cockneys vs. Zombies is a genre blend of London “caper” and zombie films. Pretty much anything you might expect from a film like this, well, it delivers. Shout Factory brings the film to North America on Blu-ray and now we get to experience the fun. And it is fun. Let’s start off with the cast….
Before Airplane!, before The Naked Gun, even before The Blues Brothers or Animal House there was The Kentucky Fried Movie. Written by Zucker, Abrahams, Zucker and directed by John Landis the Kentucky Fried Movie is essentially a series of skits and disconnected bits of comedy spoofing mostly movies and television. Most of the names and…
I’m not sure what you’re expecting from a film that outright promises to celebrate a person’s 21’st birthday with debauchery. It is fairly honest and open with what it aims to do. This time the co-writers of The Hangover this time write and direct, and the results are pretty much what one might (and should)…
There sure were some crazy science fiction films in the 80s. One of these was Lifeforce, which featured England going up against alien zombie vampires. In the (then) near future of 1986 a mission to explore Halley’s Comet finds some sort of structure with, among other things, 3 humanoid bodies in some sort of…
There’s a sequence early on in Cohen & Tate that makes very little sense. A family under federal witness protection is on a farm somewhere in the middle of nowhere. Of course things are going to go poorly and the bad guys are coming. So, the phone line gets disconnected as the man under witness…