Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials and the 2009 Criterion DVD edition , not the Blu-ray edition under review. In his debut film, 1990’s Metropolitan , it was magical the way writer/director Whit Stillman unexpectedly rendered so captivating and charming the humorous, touching postgraduate romantic peccadilloes of young, ultra …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials and the 2009 Criterion DVD edition , not the Blu-ray edition under review.
This week’s DVD releases include two TV offerings featuring larger-than-life characters.
Highly Recommended THE SHOW: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from the series’ promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. The second season of HBO’s New Orleans drama Treme takes the series into a comfortable stride, settling deeper into the characters and the city’s culture and proving that David Simon ( The Wire , Generation Kill ) is one of the more expansive …
Looking for a fun way to spend a rainy day? Check out the movies available at your local library. Did you know that the Lee County Library System has more than 185,000 DVDs and more than 8,500 Blu-ray movies?
Highly Recommended The Movie: A lost Ernst Lubitsch spectacle, one of the last two filmsthat he made in Germany before going to Hollywood, has been found,restored,and released on a lovely Blu-ray disc. The film is Das Weib des Pharao or The Loves of Pharaoh as it’s knownin English, is a large, impressive film filled with thousands of extrasandsome very striking sets (including a Sphinx!), but it …
Slipknot will make their Blu-ray debut on July 31st with the North American release of {sic}nesses: Live At Download
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from the 2006 Criterion DVD edition , not the Blu-ray edition under review. Whit Stillman ( Damsels in Distress ) is a magical filmmaker, and a challenging one, too, though in few of the ways that word might usually apply. He presents viewers (or at least, speaking for myself, a viewer like me) with the challenge of stories …
The prison takeover film has been a Hollywood staple for decades and Lockout runs with the formula with the only real snippet of originality being that the prison is set in space. It is the year 2079, and CIA agent Marion Snow (Pearce) is framed for the murder of another agent who was investigating stolen government secrets…
My Hot Electronics is accepting pre-orders on the upcoming release of the complete series of the hit 90’s TV show, “Friends,” on Blu-Ray. The set will be released on November 13.Detroit, Michigan (PRWEB) July 17, 2012 My Hot Electronics announced on Tuesday that the store is now taking preorders for the release of the hit TV 90’s series “Friends,” which will contain all of the episodes of the …