Maria Bello is a fine actress and all, but NBC's remake of "Prime Suspect" has a lot going against it. First and foremost, the new "Prime Suspect" soon will be drowning in comparisons to the British source material -- arguably the smartest, best-written and best-acted cop series on any continent. The series spread out across 15 years, with the … [Read more...]
‘Stake Land’: Vampire apocalypse
Draw a triangle. Use "The Road," "I Am Legend" and "28 Days Later" as corners. There, in the shadowy center, we find "Stake Land," a low-budget effort that's probably the best horror film of the year. Post-apocalyptic movies overrun by the undead almost always fail to live up to their incredible premise, but "Stake Land" delivers on multiple … [Read more...]
‘Epitafios’ returns with a new face of evil
"The gates of hell are wide open tonight," says the coroner, the busiest man in Buenos Aires. The soaring body count signals the return of "Epitafios," the brilliant and gruesome crime miniseries from HBO Latin America. The pay channel's video unit just released the sequel in the U.S. as a four-DVD set. "Epitafios: The End Now Has Two Faces" … [Read more...]
‘High and Low’ and hard-boiled
Akira Kurosawa wasn't known for film noir or crime thrillers, but he did do a genre drive-by back in 1963. Of course, it's killer. The Criterion Collection has reissued to Blu-ray "High and Low," the Japanese master's tale of a hardworking factory chief whose life is ruined after his son is targeted by kidnappers. Toshiro Mifune plays shoe … [Read more...]
‘Platoon’ brings the jungle back home
MGM has redeployed Oliver Stone's "Platoon" in a Blu-ray edition that marks the movie's debut in high def and its 25th anniversary. The Vietnam War film -- released at Christmas 1986 -- has been followed by a host of Vietnam War films, but remains in the upper tier because of its strong young cast, terse storytelling and claustrophobic scenes of … [Read more...]
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