Salute (Arrow, cert PG, Blu-ray/DVD) The black power salute given by African-American 200m runners Tommie Smith and John Carlos at the 1968 Mexico Olympics is the focus of this great documentary directed by Matt Norman, son of Australian silver medallist Peter Norman, who was on the podium with Smith and Carlos. It’s the US civil rights movement distilled into a moment, and a reminder of the …
This week’s DVD selections include a look at a historical feud and a tale of financial terror.
Highly Recommended The 2004 film Torque came and went, dismissed by most as a forgettable Fast and the Furious knockoff that replaced cars with motorcycles and called it a day.
Also reviewed: ‘Forever Marilyn: The Blu-Ray Collection,’ ‘The Hunter,’ ‘The Weight of the Nation.’ Hatfields & McCoys
Three foreign films lead off these new movies that have found their way to DVD and Blu-ray this week.
At this point, we all know (or should know) that we can expect a Blu-ray re-release of just about every classic sci-fi film ever, but some catch our eye more than others. For instance, take a look at this limited-edition packaging for the 30th-anniversary Blu-ray of Steven Spielberg’s E. T.
Highly Recommended I’d seen the medical thriller Coma (1978) once before, not during its original theatrical run but soon thereafter, and didn’t think very much of it at the time. Probably I was expecting something closer to medical science fiction (which, technically, this also is), that rare sub-genre in which Coma ‘s director, Michael Crichton, got his start as the author of the bestseller …
Rent It The Movie: When I revisited the 2011 World Series earlier in the year, I really enjoyed how the series’ momentum between the Texas Rangers and St. Louis Cardinals swung back and forth many times through the course of the series, and that Game 6 “was the most tension-filled and perhaps one of the best in recent Series memory.” And to presumably further the case of this, A&E (in …
The European Commission on Tuesday said it had sent a “statement of objections” to 13 firms suspected of taking part in a cartel for optical disk drives, used to read or write data on CDs and DVDs.
This week is made by the release of Star Trek: The Next Generation ’s first season on Blu-ray. There’s some catalog stuff, and two Eddie Murphy films, one that sat in the closet for nearly five years.