DVD Talk DVD ReviewsDVD Talk DVD Review RSS FeedSex and the City- May 30, 2008 Skip It Every film critic comes across a title they aren't exactly prepared to fully understand. It's a complicated part of the vocation, but a necessary situation that's valuable; perhaps even shedding new light on a cinematic subject. "Sex and the City" was one of those situations for me. While firmly ensconced in her haute couture lifestyle, Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) is ready to settle down with her longstanding paramour, Mr. Big.http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=33425 Mother of Tears- May 30, 2008 Highly Recommended If there's any filmmaker working today who defines the concept of "an acquired taste," it would certainly be Dario Argento. Floundering in the industry for the last 20 years, Argento finally arrives to complete his "Three Mothers" trilogy that was last heard from with 1980's baffling "Inferno." It's a blood-soaked homecoming of sorts for the director, and "Mother of Tears" reawakens his mischievous spirit. It's pure insanity, but.http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=33410 Savage Grace- May 30, 2008 Recommended The murder of Barbara Daly Baekeland in 1972 revealed a sordid history behind the woman and the peculiar relationship she held with her son, Tony. "Savage Grace" is the juicy screen version of those events, and director Tom Kalin ("Swoon") treats the nightmare with a perfect pitch of melodrama and hysterics, easing into the discomfort of obscene sexual violation. A former actress turned desperate socialite, Barbara Daly...http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=33409 Bigger, Stronger, Faster- May 30, 2008 Recommended Like many impressionable kids of the 1980s, Chris Bell wanted to emulate his wrestling idols, including the outrageous tearaway-shirted one, Hulk Hogan. Unlike many kids of the 1980s, Bell and his two brothers took the extra step and embarked on a bodybuilding career to toughen themselves up and reach goals previously thought unattainable. It didn't take long for Bell to learn the ugly truth behind dominating physical achievement. .http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=33408 Sex and the City- May 29, 2008 Recommended When Sex and the City went off the air in 2004 after six seasons, a feature film follow-up was immediately put in the offing. Several years of contract negotiations and the biggest marketing blitz this side of Indiana Jones later, and that film is finally here. All that anticipation, all that excitement, and at long last, the climax. Get it, girl!The good news is that the Sex and the City movie is like an extended episode of the show....http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=33394 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull- May 22, 2008 DVD Talk Collector Series The last time Indiana Jones was in action, he was riding off into the sunset, with a final quest behind him. It took 19 years to coax him back to the screen, but the archeology O.G. is back, and "Kingdom of Crystal Skull" doesn't disappoint in the least. This is the high-flyin', fingernail-chewing, stand-up-and-cheer summer experience as anticipated, yet it's not exactly the same Dr. Jones as you might remember.The year is.http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=33318 War, Inc.- May 22, 2008 Highly Recommended "War, Inc." aims to be a sly "Dr. Strangelove" for today's disgruntled generation, who slowly simmer in the misfortune of the Iraq war. The film just isn't that razor sharp, but look at "War, Inc" as a back-flipping, over-the-top political farce, and the results are far more pleasurable. Consider the film an unofficial sequel to the 1997 classic "Grosse Pointe Blank," and "War, Inc." is absolutely wonderful. ...http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=33317 The Fall- May 22, 2008 Rent It Personal interpretation plays a huge part in the dissection of "The Fall." This is not a picture to accept at face value; it's a layered, multi-dimensional fairy tale, splattered with enough ostentation to make a 19-year-old art school student blush. It's bold, brave, and baffling. It's also completely intolerable.Stuck in a Los Angeles hospital in the 1920s, stuntman Roy (Lee Pace) is left without the use of his legs after an accident,...http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=33316 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull- May 21, 2008 Recommended The Film:When you really stop and think about it, it's not like the world needed another Indiana Jones film. Sure, the original films were good--at least the first and third were--but there was never this burning sense that there were more stories to be told. It wasn't even like Star Wars, which had a whole mythology laid out that audiences had eagerly anticipated for decades. No, there was never anything that made more adventures of...http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=33306 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull- May 21, 2008 Recommended Recapturing the magic is hard.It's funny, because walking home from a Sunday morning screening of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, I had worked out that that would be my opening line. It was only when I typed it out that I realized that this was what the fourth Indiana Jones movie, and the first in 19 years, was about.That recapturing magic is hard. As Dr. Jones--played once again by Harrison Ford, still somehow...http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=33308 |