DVD Reviews: Hitchcock Classics
NPR’s Bob Mondello reviews the DVD release of five Hitchcock classics that’ll scare the yell out of you for Halloween.
October 27, 2011
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NPR’s Bob Mondello reviews the DVD release of five Hitchcock classics that’ll scare the yell out of you for Halloween.
Skip It The Movie: Hollywood will occasionally tend to have a moment of odd convergence when all of the stars of a particular era will get together for one film that is implausibly premised, but the production serves as more of an excuse for the cast to get together and drink and cavort until the wee hours of the morning.
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Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The images used here are promotional stills and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. From Ang Lee’s urbane but serious-minded portrait of the 1970s, The Ice Storm , to Richard Linklater’s openly comic and lovingly mocking take on the same, Dazed & Confused
Highly Recommended There’s no flashy, boisterous computer animation. No overcranked, hypercaffeinated sensory overload. No stuntcasting for voices just so Disney could put a [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] famous name in big, bold letters on the poster.
The two-disc release of the 1935 film “Scrooge” offers a Blu-ray disc and DVD package featuring the classic movie about the Victorian miser named Ebenezer Scrooge, a man who despises Christmas. Ironically, his impoverished clerk Cratchit and his nephew Fred have opposite feelings for the Yuletide season. Scrooge’s issues about the holiday spirit takes another course as he finds himself visited …
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